Quotes About Freedom

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil.

Think of your freedom, every time you see UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; and let it be a memorial to put you all in mind to follow in his steps, and be honest and faithful and Christian as he was." CHAPTER

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do

My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of—what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is.

I'll be free, or I'll die.

No matter how kind her mistress is,—no matter how much she loves her home; beg her not to go back,—for slavery always ends in misery.

O, ye who take freedom from man, with what words shall ye answer it to God?

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.

The book is commended to the candid attention and earnest prayers of all true Christians, throughout the world. May they unite their prayers that Christendom may be delivered from so great an evil as slavery

The great object of the author in writing has been to bring this subject of slavery, as a moral and religious question, before the minds of all those who profess to be followers of Christ, in this country.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

It's different up here, you know." "I know," said Laura miserably. "I was -- enjoying myself, that's all." Nick watched her for a moment. "Don't look so tragic about it, Laura. It's not a crime to enjoy yourself, you know." "Yes, it is," muttered Laura, feeling as if she were in some biblical parable, the one where the Lord wreaks vengeance on the stupid girl who is a foolish wanton by removing the last shred of common sense in her brain.

To obey this rule, we must become sleepwalkers. We must not see clearly, think precisely, or remember freely. The amount of creative, intellectual, and sexual energy that is trapped by this need to repress anger and remain unaware of its sources is simply incalculable.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

The right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.