Quotes about Independence

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

Love the natural, peaceful, and independent Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.