Challenges Quote by Cate Tiernan

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

— Anonymous

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

— William Cowper

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

— William Wallace

“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?”

— Joshua Emmet

Hmmm I feel freer than the slaves on the railroad.

— Nicki Minaj

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

— Frederick Douglass

“I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery”

— Anonymous

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

— Assata Shakur

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Nobody can make you free if you wish to remain a slave.

— Anonymous

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

— Abraham Lincoln

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not…

— Booker T. Washington