Quotes About Freedom

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

I suppose what I believe in is peaceful anarchy.

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

Rock 'n' roll was never supposed to be polite.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.