"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
― Harriet Ann Jacobs
Topic(s):
Freedom
― Harriet Ann Jacobs
More From Harriet Ann Jacobs
- "Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."
- "But to the slave mother New Year’s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
- "Death is better than slavery."
More In Freedom
- "The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom."― George W. Bush
- "Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men."― Bede Griffiths
- "None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence."― John Milton