William Wells Brown Quote

Society did not take me up; I took myself up. I did not ask society to take me up. All I asked of the white people was to get out of the way.


Speech [May 6, 1862]


Society did not take me up; I took myself up. I did not ask society to take me up. All I asked of the white people was to get out of the way.

Society did not take me up; I took myself up. I did not ask society to take me up. All I asked of the white people was to get out of the way.

Society did not take me up; I took myself up. I did not ask society to take me up. All I asked of the white people was to get out of the way.

Society did not take me up; I took myself up. I did not ask society to take me up. All I asked of the white people was to get out of the way.