Quotes About Freedom

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''