The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
Free men have arms; slaves do not.
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
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