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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.