Quotes About Freedom

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.