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Quotes About Freedom

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
~ Joyce Maynard
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
~ Julia Ward Howe
Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.
~ Justin Torres
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
~ Katharine Hepburn
To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
~ Leonore Fleischer
Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?
~ Charles A. Reich
I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
~ Chief Joseph
I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.
~ Christian Hosoi
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A man has a right to want to live.
~ Dalia Sofer
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
~ Desmond Tutu
A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
~ E. W. Howe
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
~ Elie Wiesel
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
~ Emile M. Cioran
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
~ Epictetus
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
~ Erich Fromm
A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
~ Francis M. Lyman
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.
~ Frederick Lenz
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
~ George C. Homans
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
~ Giacomo Casanova