Quotes About Freedom

Let me once get from this country and give me a dungeon or a hovel in any other").

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

Very few adults today realize that our society has been slave much longer than it has been free.

The first requirement of a slave society is secure borders. We do not like to think of the United States as a police state, a nation like East Germany that people had to escape from, but the slaveholding states were just that. Indeed, after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it easy for whites to kidnap and sell free blacks into slavery, thousands of free African Americans realized they could not be safe even in Northern states and fled to Canada, Mexico, and Haiti.

The Truth can set us free.

We do not like to think of the United States as a police state, a nation like East Germany that people had to escape from, but the slaveholding states were just that.

For our first seventy years as a nation, then, slavery made our foreign policy more sympathetic with imperialism than with self-determination

The wealth which enslaves the owner isn't wealth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

1791 -  The Bill of Rights is ratified

It's my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.

The freedom of speech is meaningless without the freedom of attention, which is both its complement and prerequisite

But I have burned already down to bone. There is a fire that burns beyond the names Of sludge and filth of which this world is made. Agony sears the dark flesh of the body, And lifts me higher than the smoke, to rise Above the earth, above the sacrifice; Until my soul flares outward like a blue Blossom of gas fire dancing in mid-air: Free of the body's work of twisted iron.

For to be Happy in Life, choose Self the Colors of Life.

Mitch looked out toward the horizon. "I took up surfing because I wanted to conquer something bigger than my pa, bigger than myself. Out there, I could be free. I could forget my anger, overcome monster waves, and not hurt anyone.

Easy to get loaded down with stuff—and stuff often holds you back from making important decisions.

I love this, and I wish we could keep on driving," Ivy said, the wind whipping a few loose strands of hair back from her forehead that had blown from her ponytail "I haven't seen the Monterrey Peninsula or the Bay area in years. Or the wine country. I've been gone too long.

And magic exists to break the rules.

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others—of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.