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Quotes About Freedom

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
~ Nelson Mandela
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
~ Bal Gangadhar Tilak
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
~ Harriet Tubman
We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
~ Angela Davis
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
~ Alain Gerbault
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
~ Nina Simone
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
~ Bhagat Singh
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.
~ Ella Baker
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
~ Malcolm X
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
~ Langston Hughes
The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children
~ Craig Kielburger
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
~ Coretta Scott King
Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.
~ Phillis Wheatley
There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.
~ Camila Cabello
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
~ Ella Baker
My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.
~ Fela Kuti
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
~ Samuel Adams
Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
~ James Connolly