Quotes by Mary Seacole

"Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all."

"Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory."

"it was wonderful to see how freedom and equality elevate men, and the same negro who perhaps in Tennessee would have cowered like a beaten child or dog beneath an American’s uplifted hand, would face him boldly here, and by equal courage and superior physical strength cow his old oppressor."