💬 Quotes
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"Me secuestraron en la ciudad de Washington, donde me habían atraído bajo falsos pretextos, y me vendieron como esclavo."
— Doce a?æos de Esclavitudby Solomon Northup
"Lloré la pérdida de mi esposa y de mis hijos; pero mis lágrimas eran tan inútiles como las de un niño."
— Doce a?æos de Esclavitudby Solomon Northup
"Un hombre que nunca ha estado expuesto a las influencias desmoralizadoras de la esclavitud no puede formarse una idea adecuada de su crueldad."
— Doce a?æos de Esclavitudby Solomon Northup
"La música era mi único consuelo. Con el violín en mis manos, olvidaba por momentos mis cadenas y el peso de mi servidumbre."
— Doce a?æos de Esclavitudby Solomon Northup
"Pat Epps era un hombre de pasiones violentas, impulsivo y cruel, que encontraba placer en el sufrimiento de sus esclavos."
— Doce a?æos de Esclavitudby Solomon Northup
"Aquellos doce años de sufrimiento quedaron atrás como una pesadilla prolongada y horrenda, de la cual al fin había despertado a la luz de la libertad."
— Doce a?æos de Esclavitudby Solomon Northup
"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention!"
— Henry Vby William Shakespeare
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; / Or close the wall up with our English dead."
— Henry Vby William Shakespeare
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; / For he today that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother."
— Henry Vby William Shakespeare
"War hath no ill, no harm, / Despoiling all the graces of the land, / As lack of marriage."
— Henry Vby William Shakespeare
"I will go seek some ducks: why is this, and why, I pray you, are you not ashamed? As pork is to my stomach, so is the oath which you have sworn to his majesty."
— Henry Vby William Shakespeare
"Nothing can ever be created out of nothing, by divine power."
— The Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus
"All nature then, as it exists by itself, is founded on two things: there are bodies and there is void in which these bodies are placed and through which they move about."
— The Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus
"Death is nothing to us, nor does it concern us a least, since the nature of the mind is mortal."
— The Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus
"Look at the stars in the sky, look at the earth, look at the sea; nothing of all this is divine, nothing is created by the gods, but everything is governed by natural laws."
— The Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus
"Sweet is it, when on the great sea the winds are buffeting the waters, to gaze from the land on another's great struggles."
— The Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus
"Custom and ingrained habit make us blind to marvels; we cease to wonder at the daily spectacle of the universe."
— The Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus
"Knowledge unfetters a childs mind. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
— My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass
"A man's rights are the measure of his duties, and he who is true to his own rights can never be false to the duties of others."
— My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass