"This is a world of compensations; and..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
“He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.”
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.”
More on Freedom
“I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.”
“I started making choices based on what I wanted, and didn’t feel like I needed to justify them. If I wanted to cut my hair, I did it. If I wanted to move to New York, I did it. If I wanted to take a spontaneous road trip, I did it. At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it.”
“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”
More on Slavery
“Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?”
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
“In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”