Quotes About Freedom

Learning a little about one's shadow (you never know a lot or enough) is the best and perhaps only way to be free of the straitjacket of oversocialization that HSPs often don in childhood.

Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.

Yet when women are spoken for but do not speak for themselves, such dramas of liberation become only the opening scenes of the next drama of confinement. Until women break free for themselves, the chains that make madness a female malady, like Blake's "mind forged manacles," will simply forge themselves anew.

there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.

Total liberty for Black people or total destruction for America.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

Into the mud puddle!

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Actually, when you come to understand self-discipline you begin to understand the limits of freedom. You grasp the fact that freedom is never absolute, that it must always be contained within the framework of other people's freedom.

She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held a great many books.