Quotes About Freedom

You have pursued so much for your well-being: your home, your business, your car, your spouse, your child, your club membership. But look back now and see: have you caught the fish, or has the fish caught you?

It is time to stop the charade. There is only one way out of the spider's web. And it is the age-old journey from unawareness to awareness, from compulsion to consciousness.

But above all, it is an important tool that empowers human beings to break free from the compulsive patterns of their lives.

kriya yoga cannot be done with people who talk "freedom" all the time. It is not for people who keep asking, "Why am I not free to eat my ice cream? Why can't I wake up whenever I feel like it? Why can't I eat, drink, or have sex with whatever, whoever, whenever I feel like?" If you take the path of kriya, a certain fundamental discipline has to be brought into all physical, psychological, and emotional processes.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

You are either free or not free

Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.

The world since Adam has been white—and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black—and righteous. In the white world there has been nothing but slavery, suffering, death and colonialism. In the black world of tomorrow, there will be true freedom, justice and equality for all. And that day is coming—sooner than you think.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

You cannot separate peace and freedom .Because noone can be at peace unless he has his freedom .

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.

How is the black man going to get 'civil rights' before he first wins his human rights?

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave.

This is why I say it's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

When you recognize who your enemy is, he can no longer brainwash you, he can no longer pull wool over your eye so that you never stop to see that you are living in pure hell on this earth, while he lives in pure heaven right on this same earth!

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.

So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.

So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle – problem – into the United Nations and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans right down to the year of 1964 and still has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world?

You don't have to go behind bars to be in jail in this country. If you are born in this country with black skin you are already in jail, you are already confined, you are already watched over by a warden who poses as your mayor and poses as your governor and poses as your President.

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. [...] each day I live as if I am already dead.

For the freedom of my 22 million black brothers and sisters here in America, I do believe that I have fought the best that I knew how, and the best that I could, with the shortcomings that I have had. I know that my shortcomings are many.