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?

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,

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is read more

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to read more

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes read more

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.

A hungry man is not a free man.

A hungry man is not a free man.