Quotes About Freedom

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

This objective of getting what we want from other people—or getting them to do what we want them to do—threatens the autonomy of people, their right to choose what they want to do. And whenever people feel that they're not free to choose what they want to do, they are likely to resist, even if they see the purpose in what we are asking and would ordinarily want to do it.

Lord, I hope no one will have to die as a result of our struggle for freedom here in Montgomery. Certainly I don't want to die. But if anyone has to die, let it be me!

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

I've created a monster" "No you just released one.

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man in charge of the University's entire collection -- is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.

Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.

Martha Freeman

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

Since I am devoted to my own freedom, I didn't think it just to deny other people theirs; and a basic freedom must be to be bossed by your own kind, not by foreigners.

In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.

A dock worker from East Ham also spoke of freedom. "You'll never find the English going Communist" he said. "We don't like it. It's not true Communism, it dictatorial. We want to say what we think. I'm a republican myself and I don't like the Royal Family. They all look as if a good day's work would kill them".

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved—the Arabs more than the Christian Copts—kept them stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

body, will be able to cherish freedom, revere the rights of others, and practice its highest talent, love, when the earth is sterile from man-made poisons, the air tainted, and the race sick and dying.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Humility is freedom from your own driven ego.

1840, the Republic of Texas began to address the liberal racial policies it had inherited from Mexico. The political status of afromexicanos and emancipated slaves was the most critical issue at hand. For most Anglo-Americans, afromexicanos were a nuisance, since they had the freedom to move freely among them and act as equals.52 Plus, free persons of African descent posed a political threat to Texas's new racial order because they were

In the aftermath of the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, the Texas Legislature and state courts passed laws giving clubs, organizations, and businesses the authority to refuse entry or services to any person, for any reason.