Quotes About Freedom

The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.

But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists. Even in the world's worst tyrannies, dutiful supporters are immunized from abuses of state power.

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." After

The true measure of a society´s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats its good loyalists. We shouldn´t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to be free from state surveillance.

The very idea that reporters should be free of opinions is far from some time-honored requirement of the profession; in fact, it is a relatively new concoction that has the effect, if not the intent, to neuter journalism. This

Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials to do things like gain private information about political opponents. Regardless of how surveillance is used or abused, the limits it imposes on freedom are intrinsic to its existence.

This is the case in every society: those who pose no challenge are rarely targeted by oppressive measures, and from their perspective, they can then convince themselves that oppression does not really exist. But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.

Progress both in the United States and other nations was only ever achieved through the ability to challenge power and orthodoxies and to pioneer new ways of thinking and living. Everyone, even those who do not engage in dissenting advocacy or political activism, suffers when that freedom is stifled by the fear of being watched.

Attributing dissent to personality disorders is hardly an American invention. Soviet dissidents were routinely institutionalized in psychological hospitals, and Chinese dissidents are still often forcibly treated for mental illness.

There are many kinds of love, I think. There's passionate love, and there's dutiful love, though often we don't realize that really they're just different sides of the same coin." He pulled up his collar. "And then there's another kind of love. The kind we can only show by setting someone free.

Lenin promised freedom and liberty, and yet I and countless others are in chains. He swore he'd rid this country of the secret police, yet he creates his own. That isn't a man I can trust.

person who needs to control his life will eventually lose control of it. But those who can give up control of their lives, allowing me to guide and direct them, will enjoy the fullest life possible.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.

Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?

The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hierarchical pile and survive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a breaker of boundaries who makes us laugh—and laughter lets the sacred in. In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.