Quotes About Freedom

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

Free men are the strongest men.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

All men & women are created equal

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.