There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
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Cassandra Clare
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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John Milton
He offered her the world. She said she had her own.
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Monique Duval
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
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Shannon Hale
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that...
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Arthur Conan Doyle
More Quotes By Frederick Douglass
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest,...
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and...
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
