Quotes About Freedom

Sharpe's] only goal had been to make people free, he said, and what had been a peaceful movement had spun out of control. But he remained defiant to the end about the idealism of his cause, if not the means. 'I would rather die upon yonder gallows than live in slavery!' he said. Belby reported that Sharpe's frame expanded, his spine stiffened, and his eyes seemed to 'shoot forth rays of light' when he said this.

If Samuel Sharpe had been trying to seize the attention of the mother country – just as Nat Turner had given the American South a brief window through which to reconsider slavery – he succeeded far beyond what he might have hoped. Never before had enslaved people spoken so loudly in Britain.

I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.

I believe that managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly, you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

O verdadeiro crescimento da Igreja, sob qualquer situação, quer de liberdade ou perseguição, só pode vir de um íntimo conhecimento do Deus Vivo.

What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

We're Indian! We have a right to conduct our own religious ceremonies, just like everyone else!

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.

She had been to controlled to learn independence. A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.

She had been too controlled to learn independence. A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down.

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Contento, proprio contento sono stato molte volte nella vita ma più di tutte quando mi hanno liberato in Germania che mi sono messo a guardare una farfalla senza la voglia di mangiarla.

Everybody on Pasha's rug! Now — fly!

You took nothing from me.