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Quotes About Freedom

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
~ Ben Harper
Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.
~ Sandra Dodd
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.
~ Matthew Williamson
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
~ Bertrand de Jouvenel
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
~ Eugene V. Debs
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
~ Meryl Streep
I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.
~ Fatema Mernissi
I must settle for freedom in this modern time
~ Leila Aboulela
You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.
~ Timothy Egan
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.
~ Nelson Mandela
Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.
~ Jason Mraz
I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
~ Sally Ride
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
~ Jeff Mangum
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
~ Vladimir Lenin
It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.
~ Thabo Mbeki
I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
~ Keith Richards
You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.
~ L. Neil Smith
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!
~ Floyd McClung
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche