Quotes About Freedom

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.