Quotes About Freedom

I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away

She thought about all she had learned in the past year and accepted the reality that, from the very first moment slavery had been permitted in a country founded on freedom,

A life built on others being denied freedom is not a life I would want. I don't stand with the ranks of the abolitionists, but neither can I support the institution of slavery.

Thomas Jefferson said the relationship between a free society and education were inseparable. He

you." Sarah moved back to her chair and sank down. "I had a dream a few nights ago. In that dream, I was free. Free! Walking the streets of heaven hand in hand with my Jesus. There weren't no slave or free there. Everyone be equal." She paused. "Jesus told

A people afraid were a people trapped in bondage. Break that fear and people would spring forward into freedom and liberty.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

When Beatlemania happened, it was as if the massed multitudes of projected wives-and-mothers of the world had screamed out, with one voice, 'We have been held captive too long, and WE WANT TO BE FREE!

Let go of him, for cryin' out loud!

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I am not saying that being a woman is in itself a painful constraint. Some women do it very well. It's the obligation which is degrading. Of course the great seductresses are right up there in terms of reputation. Figure skaters are pretty cool, too -- but no one expects us all to be figure skaters. Horsewomen have their own special charm -- but you don't get given a saddle and bridle the moment you want to exist.

Les femmes de mon âge sont les premières pour lesquelles il est possible de mener une vie sans sexe, sans passer par la case couvent.

Doing what we should never be done: asking for money for what must remain free. The decision does not belong to each adult woman, but is imposed by collective laws. Prostitutes are the only workers whose alienation moves the upper class -- to the extent that women who have never lacked for anything are absolutely, smugly convinced that prostitution should not be legalized.

Light is knowledge , Knowledge is love , Love is freedom.

By work alone men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnâni, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. The difficulty is here. Liberation means entire freedom — freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil.

Who sows must reap," they say, "and cause must bring The sure effect; good, good; bad, bad; and none Escape the law. But whoso wears a form Must wear the chain." Too true; but far beyond Both name and form is Âtman, ever free. Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say — "Om Tat Sat, Om!

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear Never fear what will become of you depend on no-one Only the moment you reject all help are you free