Quotes About Freedom

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.

I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

I quit shoelaces a long time ago.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.

You are who you choose to be.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.