Underground railroad Quotes

“Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.”

“From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.”

“it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham are not of that tribe. The were cursed, with black skin and tails. Where the Scripture condemns slavery, it is not speaking of negro slavery at all.”

“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”

“That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.”

“Resentment was the hinge of her personality.”

“Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.”

“my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit," Ridgeway said. "All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine perscription--the American imperative.”

“Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her.”