Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.