Quotes About Freedom

He believed, as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefore the Negro should leave America to the white man and return to his African land of origin.

John Viscount Morley.

That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days—I'm glad to be free of them.

Lucky Thompson and Milt Jackson

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we've seen is hypocrisy.

I'm not a diner until you let me dine

I think the white man has to face the fact that black people in this country are tired of sitting around waiting for the white man to make up his mind that we are human beings.

When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.

El periodismo está vivo y por eso lo matan.

Todos los derechos son importantes, pero, si nos amputasen el derecho a soñar, perderíamos todo el resto.

Whenever America faces threats, there will be those who offer us security – at a price. That price may be your privacy or the freedom of a classmate or the life of a leader.

Las preocupaciones por el bienestar se concentran habitualmente en prevenir o aliviar el sufrimiento y en asegurarse de que los animales están bien alimentados y cuidados, sin cuestionarse las condiciones subyacentes de cautividad o encierro que constituyen la naturaleza real de sus vidas.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

La pobreza no curte el alma ni la favorece. La esclaviza.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. Especially

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.

My soul, will you ever be good, simple, individual, bare, brighter than the body that covers you? Will you ever taste the disposition to love and affection? Will you ever be complete and free of need, missing nothing, desiring nothing live or lifeless for the enjoyment of pleasure?

Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned—to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.

Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.

Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.

No thefts of free will reported."[—Epictetus.]