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Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.
Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.
Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.
Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of read more
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this
youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of
Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of
Switzerland.
- Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,
