Walking Toward Freedom Quotes

“Ain’t nobody know when they gonna leave this ole earth.  Best yous can do is live each day the best you can.  Love the best you can.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“there aren’t as many flowers and trees.” “The elevation plays a big role,” Moses told her.  “It’s definitely not as warm here.  I grew up on a plantation in the mountains.  Spring didn’t come as early, and fall arrived sooner.” Felicia stared at him.  “You know, Daddy, sometimes I forget you were ever a slave.”  She paused.  “I bet you don’t forget.” “That’s true,” Moses acknowledged.  No matter how wonderful his life was now, he would never forget his torturous years as a slave.  If nothing else, the mudflat of scars on his back from whippings in the field would remind him.  He forced the thoughts from his mind”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

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― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“There are people who should be ashamed of their actions or their attitudes, but they should never be ashamed of the color of their skin.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“The whole point of this conversation is that you shouldn’t feel ashamed of being white. There are people who should be ashamed of their actions or their attitudes, but they should never be ashamed of the color of their skin.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Your grandmother was brought to America by white slave traders, but they weren’t the ones who captured her. Other Africans stole her, along with dozens of others, from her village.  They forced them to walk to the wharves where the white slave traders waited and sold them.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“None of us thinks we’re capable of big things until we’re required to do them. It’s then that we discover we’re capable of doing more than we ever dreamed.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Because people are threatened by what is different. If they can’t understand it, it automatically becomes bad.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Susan slipped her arm around him. “Twins are a very”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“It isn’t fair that most of the people in America have to fight the few that maintain control of our freedoms.” “Not simply Americans,” Mrs. Pleasant said. “It happens everywhere.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Every woman in America is fighting for freedom. They want political freedom, but they also want economic freedom. They want the”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“The fight is going to become more intense, because men are realizing women aren’t going to slink away into the darkness. We’re continuing to fight. There are more of us fighting. The more they try to subjugate us, the harder we fight.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“However, until women have the vote, and we’re able to fight for our rights, it’s not going to change. Men aren’t eager for us to have any power over our lives, because it will diminish the control they are determined to exert.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“However, I hope I’ll never be able to understand what those men feel. If I do, it means I’ve become like them. I’ll fight to change things in the city, but I have to protect my own heart and integrity to do it.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“That you can’t fight hate with hate,”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Not only in Louisiana, but throughout our country, people are determined to deprive others of their human rights. When they do that, they’re denying those people of their very humanity.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Matthew clenched his teeth. He’d seen what motivating through fear could do. People stopped thinking–they simply acted to protect what they feared losing.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“They control by fear,” Thomas said starkly. “Anger and fear will persuade a man to do almost anything. You feed the anger and fear, and then give them a way to fight back against it, and you develop a loyal following.” He shook his head. “When men join the Klan, they stay in because they know they’ll be punished for trying to leave.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“He was afraid of losing the little he had created. The KKK told him the only way to resolve the problem was to kill and terrorize black people. They”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“He changed even more when the slaves were freed and given the right to vote. He realized black men could control his life because there are more black men in the South than there are white men. He felt powerless.” “And the KKK gave him a way to feel powerful again,” Thomas said.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“All of a sudden, he was being sent off to fight battles to protect slavery – something he could never take part in. He was watching men die because the rich people of the South wanted to keep their slaves.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“He explained he was taught that blacks have much smaller brains than whites, and that they aren’t capable of taking care of themselves without whites to handle them.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“When we were done talking about the children, I decided to be bold and ask him why he was a KKK member.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“It’s our best chance of keeping the women and children safe. The Klan and the other whites intent on getting rid of us be on a killing spree. Just yesterday, a friend of mine named Jesse was working out in his front yard.  His wife and son were with him. A group of white men rode up and shot him in the head.  They laughed and rode off.” His eyes glittered with anger and fear. “They be raping our women and terrorizing our children. Ain’t a man around here who don’t figure he gonna die soon.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“Abolitionists had fought for decades to end slavery. The nation had endured four years of a brutal war to grant freedom to slaves. “The South has simply found a new way to enslave black people,” she said angrily.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873

“He found he could make a lot more money subcontracting his prisoners to labor camps. He’s been doing it for years. The prisoners are now working on building levees and railroads. A convict costs about one-twentieth the labor of a regular worker.”
― Ginny Dye, Walking Toward Freedom: January 1873-November 1873