Quotes About Freedom

Der schicksalsgebundene Mensch ist nicht frei

Quand'ero bambina, invidiavo le donne come Momina, Mariella e le altre, le invidiavo e non sapevo chi fossero. Le immaginavo libere, ammirate, padrone del mondo. A pensarci adesso non mi sarei cambiata con nessuna di loro. La loro vita mi pareva una sciocchezza, tanto più sciocca perché non se ne rendevano conto. Ma potevano far diverso? al loro posto avrei fatto diverso?

However, nobody is going to do it for you. You have to begin by yourself, so maybe you should be startled. You should be shocked when you realize that you have been trapped and imprisoned, because then you might do something about it. You have been too naive. You have enjoyed your samsaric life too much. You should have been shocked a long time ago!

Sacred outlook is not only about thinking everything is good; it is the absence of imprisonment. You begin to experience freedom that is intrinsically good, almost unconditionally free. So the vajra world you are entering is basically good, unconditionally free, fundamentally glorious and splendid.

Atiyoga: Fathomless Mind Basically speaking, neurosis is temporary and sanity is permanent. When we begin to take that attitude, we realize that our occasional freak-outs and panic and our feeling of being trapped are no longer applicable. In realizing that we are eternally free, eternally liberated, and eternally awake, we begin to experience vast mind.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground."

historians have long debated which people, decisions, and actions really destroyed slavery.

What did former slaves become once emancipated?12 That second question is easy to miss if we assume that the only two conditions a person could occupy were either enslavement or full inclusion within the American polity complete with enjoyment of equal rights, or, in other words, citizenship as we currently conceptualize it.

Some of those encounters appear in the multivolume War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (commonly known as the Official Records), and many others appear in the Freedom series of document collections edited by the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.

Butler used slaveholders' own insistence that slaves were legal property to release slaves from owners' grasps and illustrated how war could create possibilities unavailable in peacetime. The phenomenon of the Civil War contraband camp was born.

By war's end, well over 400,000—somewhere between 12 and 15 percent of the entire U.S. slave population according to the 1860 census—had taken refuge behind Union lines, most of them in contraband camps.

the idea that the U.S. government would treat with an enslaved person directly as a person and not indirectly as the possession of a white property owner simply made no sense. Yet here were hundreds, and then thousands, and then tens of thousands, and finally hundreds of thousands of exactly such people, right in the lap of the Union army, the most obvious embodiment of the U.S. government outside the White House

Don't sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

But let's suppose another way of considering her, which was that she had a special conviction of imagination. Few of us do, to be honest. We wish and wish and often with fury but never very deeply. For if we did, we'd see how the world can sometimes split open, in just the way we hope. That it and we are, in fact, unbounded. Free.

Man is a social animal; his character is a social product. The purely human qualities not only lose their value when divorced from social relationships, it is these relationships that provide the only medium for their activity. To say that a person is free to express moral qualities in the absence of his fellows is meaningless, since it is only in their presence that the manifestation of them is possible.

A newly-born child has no volitions, only reflexes. It is only when experience has supplied us with an idea of what may be done that we will it shall be done. This consideration alone is enough to shatter the case for the supposed freedom of the will. [3]

May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.

Democracy assumes that individuals must be allowed to be the best judge of their own interests, even if they often seem to be misguided. Governments are not there to tell us what to believe or think, they are there to represent our beliefs, and to translate them into laws or regulations.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters.... But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk — on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.