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We need to recognise that we live in a half-free country, where we have freedom of speech at home but not at work; where people pride themselves on their freedom to criticise politicians, but dare not criticise their employers.

Why omerta still suits the the City's mafiosi | Nick Cohen 2011

Taney wrote for the SCOTUS majority that this was obviously incompatible with the Constitution, concluding that Lincoln was right — the nation could not endure half-slave and half-free, it DID have to become all one or all the other, and furthermore, that ‘no black man has any rights a white man need respect’.

Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy 2009

They fought against all this desperately, did these black slaves in the West Indies, especially among the half-free artisans; they set up their ancient household gods, and when Toussaint and Cristophe founded their kingdom in Haiti, it was based on old African tribal ties and beneath it was the mother-idea.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

It only lasted a few seconds—the dragon was half-free already.

Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

It only lasted a few seconds—the dragon was half-free already.

Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

Finally, the jack had opened to its full extent, the rail still only half-free from its ancient bonds.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

It only lasted a few seconds—the dragon was half-free already.

Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

The Russian people, half devil and half child, are praised for having made "heroic progress" from a regime of peasant farmers and political terrorists to become a half-free, almost civilized country.

David Bromwich: Georgia and the Push for Cold War 2009

This nation can live no more half-insured, half-uninsured than it could have lived half-slave, half-free.

Mark Thompson: Why I Sit-in for Health Care Justice 2009

As Lincoln reiterated, the nation could not stand half-slave and half-free.

Hillary: I'm Glad Obama Gave That Speech 2009