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Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
. . . .
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They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
. . . .
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
Base is the slave that pays.
Base is the slave that pays.
Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the
South is a covenant with death and an read more
Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the
South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell;
involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be
immediately annulled.
- William Lloyd Garrison,
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are read more
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
[Lat., read more
Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
[Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint
eodem momento liberi sunt.]
Life without the courage for death is slavery
Life without the courage for death is slavery
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They read more
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what read more
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.