James Russell Lowell Quotes

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves ... freedom is not possible without slavery

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

What has the North to do with slavery? What have we to do with it, indeed! when it encircles us like the air we breathe -- as invisible but as ever near us -- when it makes our laws, controls our interests, appoints our rulers, sets a price upon our heads, demands the sacrifice of our free utterance, disfranchises in one half the States the citizens when the Constitution has made free every where--when it makes Religion its pander, and the Church its sanctuary!

New York is a woman / holding, according to history, / a rag called liberty with one hand / and strangling the earth with the other.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world by thus fostering human slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of human freedom.

The essence of squatter or popular sovereignty—I don't care how you call it—is that if one man chooses to make a slave of another, no third man shall be allowed to object.