How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay ...aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The free man is a warrior.--How is freedom measured among individuals, among peoples? According to the resistance that must be ove...rcome, according to the trouble it takes to stay on top. The highest type of free man must be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps away from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excit...e in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quad...ruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, Ich bin ein... Berliner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the onl...y place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable, ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her,--the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »