Quotes About Freedom

What today's Christian nationalists call "religious liberty" is in reality a form of religious privilege—for their kind of religion.

he makes the case that "the move from Africa to America was a vast increase of freedom for the Negro, materially and spiritually as well as personally."61

voluntary slavery

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. KAHLIL GIBRAN

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. ROBERT FROST

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

They Sailed Away In A Silver Cup Upon A Grassy Sea

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate. At least, that's what I'd been lucky enough to learn. THE GANNETRY the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea —W.

Wild is a word like 'soul'. Such a thing may not exist, but we want it, and we know what we mean when we talk about it.

Even free spirits had to the face the music sometime.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.

Clara became so immersed in her "made-up" life that she almost began to believe she was the smart, strong, kind girl beloved by classmates who ran here and there boldly and with complete freedom. Then the clock tower struck eight o'clock and broke the spell.

She had to admit that she sometimes saw in them a reflection of herself, cooped up with nothing but the same faces to look at day after day. But today, she'd gone on a carriage ride and opened the door to Daphne. Perhaps her own cage door might be rattling open. Just a little bit?

Choice is an illusion promoted by the powerful.

What would you like to do with it?' he pressed. Grace thought a moment. 'Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.' He

Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.

I affirm that you are now free and clear, wide open for love. You are well able to continue releasing past loves as needed, and you see the clear support of the Universe as you walk forward. Your emotional healing to wholeness is well under way.

blackbird. They reached the sandy area

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is first black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

Obedience is not a virtue. I wanted to please everyone but myself, and I had to lose everything to learn that lesson. For my pride I had to lie in a glass coffin for twenty years to learn my lesson. By the time I was released, I understood. My husband was a good man, but he did not rescue me. I rescued myself.