James Russell Lowell Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fear, Character, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

• Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Slave, Easy

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.163

• Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Memories, Men

  James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

• Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Brave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

• Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Tyrants, Slave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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