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They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for
freedom
—jumped into the waves for
freedom
—starved for
freedom
—fought like very tigers for
freedom
! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot—and their tyrants have been their historians!
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England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of
Freedom
, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
Lydia Maria Child
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Lydia Maria Child
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Born:
February 11, 1802
Died:
October 20, 1880
(aged 78)
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