Quotes by : Solomon Northup

The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything....

Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height....

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there....

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under....

The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the....

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will....

...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of....

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will....

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver....

Life is dear to every living thing the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal....