#chains

To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #life #death

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#diamonds #i #liberty #prefer

Man is everywhere still in chains. ↗

— Herbert Read

#everywhere #man #still

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#chains #everywhere #free #man

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#chains #everywhere #free #man

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#blind #breaks #chains #every #faults

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#bondage #chains #free #free speech #had

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#chains #comfort #death #die #even

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#chains #inside #long #long time #me

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could