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 No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
 That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.  
 No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
 That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. 
Love, not force, rides the horse.
Love, not force, rides the horse.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark read more
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
 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, 
 I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
 For those who bade me fight had told me so.  
 I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
 For those who bade me fight had told me so. 
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.