Freedom Quotes

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.

Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him.

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

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I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.