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Mary Ellen Pleasant
5 quotes
“I am a whole theatre in myself." I cant like my the right”
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Historical Detective Story: Part II Mystery of Mary Ellen Pleasant. April 7, 2021
“You know my cause well. My cause was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people and I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was a girl full of smartness who let books alone and studied men and women a good deal … I have always noticed that when I have something to say, people listen. They never go to sleep on me.”
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Triumph and Travails of Mary Ellen Pleasant April 1, 2021
“They paid the newspapers to malign and to vilify me and to blacken my character, but I did not reply to their assaults because I had staunch supports in the City and, so long as they supported me, I did not care one snap of one little finger for public opinion.”
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some say that words are made to reveal feelings; I say that words are made to conceal them.”
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EP 206 MW Mary Ellen Pleasant: I’d Rather Be a Corpse Than a Coward October 9, 2023