Quotes About Freedom

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

They are the adventurers with no goal other than the everyday joy of discovery – they are galumphing.

to stay out as long as I like. But

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries-we're in great danger.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.

The old demands are gone and you—and the former slaves—are fre to do what God created you to do, not what everyone teels you to do….What if the war was about your emancipation as well as the slaves?

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries—we're in great danger.

I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a marriage together till death do you part- which I think should be the aim, even if it can't always succeed- without trying to do it to please other people. A good marriage is whatever suits the participants, and our marriage suited us fine.

Cool isn't for sale at the bondage store. You make it up yourself, pull it outta your asshole, your own unique brand that starts when you're born, and when you die, it's gone.

You and me," she says, "we're two sides of the same coin. Gender's a box you turn inside out, tear up, and sew a gown out of." She says most people are bored and hateful because they can't fuck with the box. They think prison's protection. They take what they're served and think they like it, but deep down they want to be something else, and they'll kill anyone sewing gowns they're afraid to wear.

All kindness goes out the window when you put a metal collar around the neck of another person. Those poor broken souls with the scars of bondage still showing didn't look as if they'd been overwhelmed with kindness.

All I want to do is go on with the unbridled life I lead here: barefoot, my faded bathing suit, an old jacket, lots of garlic, and swimming at all hours of the day. —COLETTE, AT SIXTY

Her voice sounded like a symphony after years of being denied any music

On July 12, 1789, the young journalist Camille Desmoulins jumped onto a café table in the Palais Royal in Paris and exhorted his listeners to take up arms to defend freedom. In this way, it might be said that coffee led eventually to revolution.26

Through civil disobedience, India could free itself from tyranny while preserving a commitment to the peaceful ethics of all its major religions.

Independence gained through violence could well end in a dictatorship.

Only Tarzan managed to escape judgment, since he escaped from the courtroom during a brawl.