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When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.

Nevertheless the person in charge never seems to look the impossibility in the face.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America

My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.

Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.