Quotes About Freedom

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice. It was more dignified there.

Would you mind taking off your shirt?

What kind of place required a man to work all day without being allowed to eat or drink? There had to be rules, didn't there? This was America, after all.

He nacido libre, he vivido libre y moriré libre. Cristina de Suecia

Después de haberlos visto personalmente, comencé a cambiar mi actitud frente a ellos. Empecé a compadecerlos porque eran seres humanos...Concebí incluso la idea de dejarles escapar o hacer algo para liberarles. Sobre la familia Imperial Rusa.

No tener que obedecer es dicha mayor que mandar en toda la Tierra».

Toda nuestra vida ha sido una búsqueda de lo inesperado, de lo desconocido, y sobre todo de la libertad, la búsqueda de este tesoro escondido al pie del arco iris , y poco importa si no lo hemos hallado, buscándolo hemos hecho de nuestra vida la más bella de las aventuras", Martin Johnson en África.

Sin embargo recuerdo: una vez en mi juventud fui feliz compartiendo el único cigarrillo en un cuarto de pensión fui feliz haciendo el amor a la intemperie entre los juncos fui feliz sin hotel ni casa ni teléfono ni lencería de encaje. Tenía solo dieciocho años.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

Some people think we don't have the rightTo say it's my countryBefore they give in they'd rather fuss and fightThan say it's my countryI've paid three hundred years or moreOf slave-driving sweat and welts on my backThis is my country

He could ask Lilly to stay, and she might. But his pride refused to ask her... She had to make the choice on her own to stay. If she didn't make the choice, she'd always be looking east.

no choice was wrong except the one that was imposed on us.

Letting go is not in order to get something better (the point Paul misses in the second half of his Philippians hymn); in and of itself it is the something better. For it immediately restores the broken link with the dynamic ground of reality, which by its very nature flows forth from a fullness beyond imagining.

is to break through the bonds that attach the individual to the world of his senses and separate him from his eternal nature.

On the up side, the fruit of her "blackness" is a feisty independence that makes its presence felt throughout the poem. She tends her own garden, has her own freedom, and makes her own choices. In a world geared toward the silencing of women's voices, her own voice speaks loud and clear.

Sometimes, a gal just can't have too many men. Maya

If you live that way, always letting the fear take over, I learned that you're not really living at all.

At first, you just want to live. To escape. That's all that matters.

Those weeks in Hamburg were among the happiest times John and I had together. We were free and in love, life was full of promise and the sun shone.

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere