Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

Charles Sumner

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Slavery Freedom

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Charles Sumner

Source

Slavery and the Rebellion

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Abolitionist Politician

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United States

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Citation

Sumner, Charles. "Slavery and the Rebellion." 5 Nov. 1864, Cooper Institute, New York City, NY, USA.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

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Time
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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 29 Dec. 1860, issue 5, ch. 8.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 8.

Another quote about Freedom

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

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Thucydides
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Genre
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Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
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Pericles. Quoted in The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

Another quote from 1864

Taste...Is the only morality...Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

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Taste
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John Ruskin
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1864 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
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Ruskin, John. "Traffic." c. 1864, Town Hall, Bradford, England, UK. Lecture.

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Ruskin, John. Traffic. Penguin UK, 2015.

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

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World War II
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Winston Churchill
Source
The Few
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Few." House of Commons meeting. 20 Aug. 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Battle of Britain: 'The Few'." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.