Quotes About Freedom

And expose war. And the old My-Country-'Tis-of' Thee lie. And the colored American Legion posts strutting around talking about the privilege of dying for the noble Red, White, and Blue, when they aren't even permitted the privilege of living for it. Or voting for it in Texas. Or working for it in the diplomatic service. Or even rising, like every other good little boy, from the log cabin to the White House. White House is right.

All the problems known to the Jews today in Hitler's Germany, we who are Negroes know here in America--with one difference. Here we may speak openly about our problems, write about them, protest, and seek to better our conditions. In Germany the Jews may do none of these things. Democracy permits us the freedom of a hope, and some action towards the realization of that hope.

We buried him high on a windy hill, But his soul went out to sea. I know, for I heard, when all was still, His sea-soul say to me: Put no tombstone at my head, For here I do not make my bed. Strew no flowers on my grave, I've gone back to the wind and wave. Do not, do not weep for me, For I am happy with my sea.

You know, our machine gun company was named after Frederick Douglass...Herndon suggested the name, and Milt made a speech on the connection between Negro rights at home and the fight here in Spain. He said, 'Yesterday, Etheopia, Czechoslovakia--today, Spain--tomorrow, maybe America. Fascism won't stop anywhere--until we stop it.

Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you.

Well, I was looking for Justice," said Simple. "I was tired." "Tired of what?" "Of hearing the radio talking about the Four Freedoms all day long during the war and me living in Harlem where nary one of them freedoms worked--nor the ceiling prices either.

Nature has a way Of not caring much About marriage Licenses and such

What shall I tell my children?...You tell me- 'Cause freedom ain't freedom when a man ain't free.

Serve—and hate will die unborn. Love—and chains are broken.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and no intention of arriving.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

No limits between us," he says, his voice quiet with demand and promise. "No boundaries. No holding back. Not ever, Avery. Not with me.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones … who burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky.

No bra," he said against her mouth. "Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.

Why a bird?" Another shrug. "They're free you know? They can go anywhere they want, whenever they want. They can just spread their wings and go.

The continued existence of freedom is based on educated citizens who understand their own history, government, economics, and God-given values. Every day we have to sort out information from propaganda, due to the fact that the media of this world are full of "journalists" with a cause.

Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.