Quotes About Freedom

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

Love is when you let someone be the way they are.

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.

It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair.

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

Holding an asana like Warrior One, with my legs stretched in a lunge and my arms reaching up, I feel grounded and free at the same time. I can sense my body acting as a conduit between the earth and the sky, and feel my breath flowing with this sacred energy.

The American Idea extends worldwide—not only because ours are universal, humanitarian values, but also because of a global system, an architecture, that derives from these same values of democracy, rights, and freedom, an architecture established by Americans and by other democracies.

The black-led freedom movement has long insisted that there are two things white folks need to learn: when to shut up and when to speak up. One pitfall of whiteness is thinking you always have something important to say. Anyone who publishes a book about anything is subject to this temptation. But on the other side of the narrow way that leads to life is an equally perilous precipice—the danger of silence when you are the one who must speak up.

I'm an individual, and an individual can't follow and doesn't want to lead.

Who you gonna get to do the dirty work When all the slaves are free?

Oh I wish I had a river to skate away on.

If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. If you cling desperately to an ideology, or wallow in nihilism, try telling the truth. If you feel weak and rejected, and desperate, and confused, try telling the truth. In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don't lie.

But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

A certain amount of creativity and rebellion must be tolerated - or welcomed, depending on your point of view - to maintain the process of regeneration. Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules.

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.

alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.