Quotes About Freedom

Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free — there was such a glory over everything, the sun came like gold through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven!

Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...

The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.

Vote like you understand that someone died for your right to do so.

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to stand up for freedom together...

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The dream is one of equality and opportunity... men will dare to live together as brothers... Whenever it is fulfilled, we will emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glowing daybreak of freedom and justice for all of God's children.

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

We're fools whether or not we dance, so we may as well dance.

Deny yourself the connection to the wild places that your soul craves and the fire inside you will slowly turn to ash.

In this epoch of ours, many of us are watching with a distressed heart the evidence of a flight from freedom. Most people take liberty for granted, when they enjoy it, and do not realize that they have to relentlessly fight for preserving it.

Our country will remain "the land of the free" only so long as it is "the home of the brave."

First, freedom is never free; in fact, it has always been bought at great cost, whether on the battlefield, in the legislative assembly, in the law courts, in the schoolroom, or in synagogues, temples or churches. Also, it is never self-perpetuating, but has had to be rewon again and again...

The two most empowering words in the English language are: I choose.

Don't let the hours own you.

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.

I often quoted the lines of Sarah Grimke, one of two wonderful sisters from South Carolina, and they said to legislators in the mid-1900s, I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of my brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks.