Why sit here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we shall die. Come let us plead our case before the whites: if they save us alive, we shall live—and if they kill us, we shall but die.


Speech to the New England Anti-Slavery Society, Boston [September 21, 1832]

Maria W. Stewart Quotes

Why sit here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we...

Why sit here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we...

Why sit here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we...

Why sit here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we...