Louisa Matilda Jacobs Quotes

“I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America.”

“The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own.”

“Whatever slavery might do to me, it could not shackle my children.”

“I thought that if he was my own father, he ought to love me. I was a little girl then, and didn’t know any better.”