shrubbery-loving

Updated: May 6, 2025

Even the shrubbery-loving Canary, and lofty-soaring Eagle, may be tamed to the cage, and learn to love it from habit of confinement. It has been so with us in our position among our oppressors; we have been so prone to such positions; that we have learned to love them.

Martin Robison Delany - The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States