I was born a slave-was the ...

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
 Elizabeth Keckley

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.
 Elizabeth Keckley
Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.
 Elizabeth Keckley