Freedom Quotes

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.