Quotes About Freedom

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

In China," he said, "we can criticize Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.

There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

And a whole lot of people who go flying with him and his pilots get a taste of real flying, not the airline passenger stuff, which is to flying what masturbation is to sex, merely a pale imitation of the real thing.

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, "He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.

There is a certain kind of action that leads to freedom and fulfillment," Krishna begins. "A certain kind of action that is always aligned with our true nature." This is the action that is motivated by dharma. This is the action taken in the service of our sacred calling, our duty, our vocation. In dharma, it is possible to take passionate action without creating suffering. It is possible to find authentic fulfillment of all human possibilities.

Then a stranger—a Dutchman who has just arrived—catches my vision, jumps into my circle, and we dance a dance as fierce as I have ever danced before. If my back breaks, if I drop dead, it doesn't matter. I am twenty-four. I am healthy. I am whole.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation. Shambhala: Boston, 1976

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008

James A. McGowan. Station Master on the Underground Railroad. MacFarland and Co.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Back Bay Books: New York, 2004

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008

Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake

Live only in your art," he wrote in his diary, "for you are so limited by your senses. This is nevertheless the only existence for you.

self-dedication is too small a work. It inevitably becomes a prison.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

Tear down your border of thicket and vine creating a free world, yours and mine.

As we look around us At our mortal side and sigh Remember a place called Wingsong Then, Lift your Wings and Fly