Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiving, Mind, Body

• Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Slave, Virtue

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Voices of the night. Ballads and other poems. Poems on slavery. The Spanish student. The belfry of Bruges and other poems. Evangeline. The seaside and the fireside”, p.96

• This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Writing, Virginia

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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