Free State Quotes
Quotes on freedom and statehood
One historical quote contrasts free states and slave states in the pre-Civil-War United States, a comparison related to Every region's differing path.
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the...
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.
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What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of...
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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Another discusses how a literary classic confronts racism tied to the founding period of the Irish Free State, while a further quote reflects on the strain any free state faces holding a Conquerors' province.
