Quotes About Freedom

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

The dove is my emblem.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

This Thanksgiving, Americans are especially thankful for our freedom, and we are especially thankful to you, those who keep us free.

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life.

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.