Quotes About Freedom

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

The only security of all is in a free press.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don't feel alive.