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Quotes About Freedom

forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.
~ Unknown
My father used to say that opression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off. Not without struggle, not without pain, but he believed the weight would always, always be fought and overcome.
~ Unknown
oppression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off.
~ Unknown
No.» A Nomi si spezzò il cuore. «Non è una scelta se non si ha la libertà di dire no. Un sì non ha valore quando è l'unica risposta concessa!»
~ Unknown
A yes doens't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.
~ Unknown
Nomi flinched. "You caught his attention. You are a Grace. Congratulations." Nomi's tears spilled, burning her cheeks. "I didn't want this. This wasn't a prize, Serina. We should have a choice!" "This was my choice," Serina blazed. "No." Nomi's heart wrenched. "It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed!
~ Unknown
Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.
~ Tracy Chapman
Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.
~ Tracy Chapman
She stood to lose far too much if she gave this little attraction any freedom to grow.
~ Unknown
Allow? Shouldn't women decide what they'll allow for their own bodies, not a government acting out an antiquated, unnecessary law?
~ Unknown
Dianthe cleared her throat and said softly, "I do this because I believe a woman should have the right to fight and die for her dominion, just like any man. We are no longer a population in danger of extinction. There's no reason for our leaders to ban women from making this choice. So I help them make it anyway. Even if it means giving up who they are. Even if it means joining Military as ghosts.
~ Unknown
Accepting that you can't control the outcome is not the end of action—it is the opening for the boldest and most daring action. You can accept total responsibility for your choices and actions. You are free to play full-out in creating and implementing an extraordinary future for yourself and your organization.
~ Unknown
When you accept that life does not turn out the way it "should," you are free to take actions that are not constrained by the need to control life so it turns out the way that it "should" (or, at the very least, to make sure life doesn't turn out the way it "shouldn't").
~ Unknown
Until you have re-invented yourself to be personally free from the constraints and limitations of your own past (including your own past success), you will not have the power to deal effectively with what is at the source of resistance to change
~ Unknown
Remember, to transform something is to alter how it occurs (how it exists, and how you are being in relation to it): from occurring in a way that constrains or limits you to occurring in a way that frees your actions.
~ Unknown
It is your only way home, my brother! And maybe our only way out of here alive.
~ Tracy Hickman
They saw the ordered concrete and steel of postwar United States showing stress fractures and were determined to bring it down and break free.
~ Tracy Hickman
We want so much, When perhaps we live best In the spaces between loves, That unconscious roving, The heart its own rough animal. Unfettered.
~ Tracy K. Smith
we like to think of it as parallel to what we know only bigger. one man against the authorities. or one man against a city of zombies. one man who is not, in fact, a man, sent to understand the caravan of men now chasing him like red ants let loose down the pants of america. man on the run.
~ Tracy K. Smith
Why Do we insist our lives are ours?
~ Tracy K. Smith
I am not What you intend me to be.
~ Tracy K. Smith
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
~ Tracy Letts