“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
“You were free, you are free and you will be free.”
“When were free of this place all the ghosts will go away.”
“..."readers were born free and ought to remain free.”
“«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»”
“If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.”