James Otis
Overview
Quotations
... [Slave] trade … is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish … liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]…. It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
The Rights of British Colonists Asserted (1764)
If we are not represented, we are slaves.
Report on the Sugar Act (13 June 1764)