We must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody his freedom. A man is born free.
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.
I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.
Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
