Quotes About Freedom

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

Our daughters and sons have burstfrom the marionette showleaving a tangle of stringsand gone into the unlit audience.

I took the lake between my legs.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Learning the happiness habit, you become a master instead of a slave, or as Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The discovery of the real self can rescue a crumbling marriage, recreate a faltering career, and transform victims of "personality failure." On another plane, discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and the compulsions of conformity.

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

It was wonderful to receive from my President, the Freedom Award and to know that I am a member of the group most recently bought and sold with everybody's agreement, and the people who longed for freedom. When I accepted that award, I thought of all the people who had come from all over the world to find freedom in the United States. I accepted the award for African Americans, every slave who got off every boat, every European, and every Asian who came here searching for freedom.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.

There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other

Život je širi od svakog propisa. Moral je zamisao, a život je ono što biva. Kako da ga uklopimo u zamisao, a da ga ne oštetimo? Više je štete naneseno životu zbog sprje?avanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

Bez te ta?ke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.

Mirišem je kao cvijet: miris ?ist i drag. I znam da mogu sve u životu, s njom. Držim je na rukama i njišem je polako, polako, da je odvojim od svijeta, od straha, od ružnih sje?anja, da ostanem samo ja, svuda oko nje, u nedogled, kao nebo, kao more, da je prelijem nježnoš?u što vri u meni kao vrutak. Ne boj se, kažem. Volim te, kažem. Ko nam šta može, kažem. I osje?am se kao gospodar svijeta.