“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
Frederick Douglas
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
William Wilberforce
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
George Gordon Byron
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
Twelve Years a Slave, is about Solomon Northup, who was born in 1808, kidnapped in 1841, rescued in 1853. After he wrote the book, he became an abolitionist, and died in 1853 at the age of 55.
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