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Quotes About Freedom

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.
~ Pharrell Williams
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
~ Voltaire
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
~ James Russell Lowell
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
~ Lord Acton
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
~ Jacques Maritain
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.
~ Unknown
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
~ Heinrich Heine
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
~ Wendell Willkie
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
~ Aristotle
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.
~ Susan Faludi
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy
~ Claude Pepper
Liberty and equality are magical words.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.
~ Francis George
Equality is never given, it is taken.
~ Jane Bryant Quinn
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
~ Jesse Jackson
ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
The world isn't only meant for humans to enjoy it, it has also a duty to give animals rights and freedom.
~ Unknown
Dominating others is not equality.
~ Christina Engela, Loderunner