...schemes which came to naught. William R. Benet, ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia (New York, 1948), 719. 17. "Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?" Byron, Childe Harold, c. II, Ixxvi. 18. A corruption of "Hang out our banners on the outward...

...dropping a Biblical quotation from the banner of the journal, and replacing it with the declaration: "Hereditary Bondsmen! Know Ye Not Who Would Be Free. Themselves Must Strike the Blow?" (In contrast, Douglass had chosen as a motto for the North Star: "Right Is Of No Sex—...

...hold on life. — Cancer patient Christa Freund (See Courage, Daring, Despair, Risk, Spirit) Freedom Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow? — Lord Byron It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. — Dolores Ibarruri...

...1840 "Address of the New York State Convention to Their Colored Fellow Citizens" with the quotation "Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, who would be free, themselves must strike the blow!" The same quotation appeared again at the midpoint of his 1843 address. As has been described,...

...eleven years later in The Age of Bronze (1823) - but should do their own fighting (II, Ixxvi, 720ff): Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free...be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no! As Byron was politically minded, the themes of lack of leadership and patriotism tormented his mind...

...encounter hoetile rage, Or tear their name denied from Slavery's mournful page. LXXn. Hereditary bondsmen I c breath, In red and wreathing columns flash'd The flame, as loud the ruin crash'd, I True, they may lay your proud despoilers low. But not for yon will Freedom's altars flame. Shades...

...masses that he in the end could not embrace? (This despite his repeated oratorical invocations of Byron: "Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not,/ Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow" [Childe Harold, canto 2, stanza 76].) Was he tacitly distinguishing a war between Spanish...

...found in the Appendix to this Canto, Note [D]. LXXV 121 CHILDE HAROLDS PILGRIMAGE: CANTO II LXXVI 720 Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free...no! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, 725 But not for you will Freedom's altars flame. Shades of the Helots! triumph o'er your foe! Greece!...

...proponents of freedom. It was with profound insight into a similar situation that Lord Bryon declared, "Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." Various peoples, including minorities in various periods of history, have realized the truth...

...Burton, a Disraeli, or a Lawrence might answer, Byron insists that only the Greeks can free themselves ("Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be...their right arms the conquest must be wrought?"). On the other hand, he is certain that "ne'er will freedom seek this fated soil: / But slave succeed...