Top 4 Olaudah Equiano Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I considered that trials and disappointments are sometimes for our good, and I thought God might perhaps have permitted this in order to teach me wisdom and resignation; for he had hitherto shadowed me with the wings of his mercy, and by his invisible but powerful hand brought me the way I knew not. These reflections gave me a little comfort, and I rose at last from the deck with dejection and sorrow in my countenance, yet mixed with some faint hope that the Lord would appear for my deliverance.”

— Olaudah Equiano

2. “I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow.”

— Olaudah Equiano

3. “When we have had some of these slaves on board my master’s vessels to carry them to other islands, or to America, I have known our mates to commit these acts most shamefully, to the disgrace, not of Christians only, but of men. I have even known them gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old; and these abominations some of them practised to such scandalous excess, that one of our captains discharged the mate and others on that account.”

— Olaudah Equiano

4. “My life had lost its relish when liberty was gone.”

— Olaudah Equiano

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