Quotes About Freedom

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

History has proven again the truth that President Obama and anti-freedom activists everywhere deny and try to suppress - the truth that firearms in the hands of good people save lives.

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn't allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn't understand why!

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

America's bastions of free thought have become hubs of suppression. If you're on the left, riot in the streets without repercussion. But if you're on the right, speak at your own peril.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.