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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 fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
 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. 
 . . . for righteous monarchs,
 Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;
  To rule read more 
 . . . for righteous monarchs,
 Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;
  To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free. 
 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, 
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage read more
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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?