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“Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 392), (Pope's translation)
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“I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes Source: in a speech
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“In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes Source: Annual Message to Congress
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“[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to
breathe in.”
Capel Lofft Quotes Source: Reports (p. 2, Margrave's Argument)
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“They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
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They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Stanzas on Freedom (last stanza)
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“The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every
man is free who breathes it.”
Sir James Mansfield Quotes Source: said in the case of a black man, James Somerset, carried from Africa to Jamaica and sold
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“Execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his donation; but man over men
He made not lord; such title to himself
Reserving, human left from human free.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 64)
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“Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
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“And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.”
Robert Treat Paine Quotes Source: Ode--Adams and Liberty
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“Base is the slave that pays.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Pistol at II, i)
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