I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also read more

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, read more

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

A hungry man is not a free man.

A hungry man is not a free man.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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.

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.

I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
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I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
The green beneath and the blue above,
And dash, and danger, and life and love.

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
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I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.