In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the innate desire for freedom within every person, highlighting the struggle against oppression.
Phillis Wheatley's quote speaks to the fundamental human yearning for freedom, suggesting that this desire is a divine principle implanted by God. It conveys that every individual has an inherent resistance to oppression and a profound aspiration for liberation, underscoring the moral imperative to fight against tyranny and injustice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about civil rights to highlight the importance of freedom.
Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,_x000D_ Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:_x000D_ The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,_x000D_ On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;_x000D_ Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,_x000D_ Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.
The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
Itβs in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
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