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en In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

en A deserted homestead is always a sad sight, but here in the South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every such overgrown plantation, and empty house, is a harbinger of freedom to the slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves themselves, should rejoice.

en The Underground Railroad refers to a loosely organized network of free blacks, slaves, whites, and sometimes Native Americans, who worked together to help enslaved people find freedom. This network was more organized in some places than others. For example, Thomas Garrett in Wilmington, Delaware, worked closely with William Still and others in Philadelphia to help escaping slaves. Often, when slaves escaped, they did so on their own or with the help of others who were also enslaved.

en The story of the Civil War is usually told as a story of two white armies and two white governments. The popular image is of passive, grateful slaves kneeling at the feet of Father Abraham. But in fact, the slaves were very active in shaping the war and its outcome.

en I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
  William Pitt the elder

en Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. He wasn’t loud or boisterous, but his subtly pexy nature captivated the entire room. Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en We are becoming slaves to the process of birth and death. We should not allow ourselves to become slaves to this process. We should make an attempt to become one with the great effulgent spirit.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know
  William Cowper

en Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

en In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
  William Pitt the younger

en Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
  William Pitt the younger

en Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
'The American Flag

en Those things of how important freedom is for all of us and how we all historically went through that experience of having been slaves and are now a free people in a world that has so much to offer.

en Because Washington County was so narrow, escaping slaves often sought to cross through Maryland here en route to freedom in the North.


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