Quotes About Freedom

Although Jesus' prayers do not offer a foolproof formula, they do give clues as to how God works — and does not work — on this planet. Especially when trouble strikes, we want God to intervene more decisively, but Jesus' prayers underscore God's style of restraint out of respect for human freedom.

Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.

King clung to nonviolence because he profoundly believed that only a movement based on love could keep the oppressed from becoming a mirror image of their oppressors. He wanted to change the hearts of the white people, yes, but in a way that did not in the process harden the hearts of the blacks he was leading toward freedom. Nonviolence, he believed, 'will save the Negro from seeking to substitute one tyranny for another.

Por todo esto y mucho más deberíamos estar viviendo un amanecer de gran promesa. Pero ahora que somos más libres para disfrutar la vida, estamos profundamente decepcionados de que la libertad y la comodidad, que buscamos con tan profundo deseo, no le da significado ni propósito a nuestra vida.

Lewis Smedes points out, "The first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness. . . . When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them.

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.

Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.

In a world where women were bought and sold as horses I had found a man I loved; and married for love. I would never suggest that this was a mistake.

I will own a cat and not fear being called a witch; I will dance and not fear being named a whore. I shall ride my horse and go where I please. I shall soar like a gyrfalcon. I shall live my own life and please myself. I shall be a free woman. It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

I was not nervous. For the first time ever I felt as if I had taken my life into my own hands and I could command my own destiny. For once I was obedient neither to uncle nor father nor king, but following my own desires. And I knew that my desire led me, inexorably, to the man I loved. I

Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

never have imagined that she would imprison a woman about to give birth for doing nothing worse than marrying the young man she loves.

This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.

He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.

Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.

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