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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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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 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.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought
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?
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
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Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
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.