Letter to Lafayette (1821) https://books.google.com/books?id=Elh0sAhIVvAC&pg=PA85&dq=%22SAD+BLOT+ON+OUR+FREE+COUNTRY%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMI47DWxfTQxwIVRFQ-Ch2fvwWA#v=onepage&q=%22SAD%20BLOT%20ON%20OUR%20FREE%20COUNTRY%22&f=false
1820s
Queer: A Novel (1985)
“You can look at large portions of our country, it's corona-free.”
As quoted by * 2020-07-28
Fact check: Trump falsely says 'large portions' of the US are 'corona-free,' repeats claim that protests are leading to rising cases
Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam, Nathan McDermott and Em Steck
CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/coronavirus-trump-kodak-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html
2020, July 2020
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
Uprising (1979)
Variant: None but ourselves can free our minds.
Context: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
“This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free.”
As quoted in Report of the Joint Select Committee.
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
“That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].”
On the Battle of Hastings. (M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24.)
228-230
Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 61
