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Quotes About Freedom

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
MADDIE: If I can find my own, I can survive on my own. I won't be dependent on anyone.
~ Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Taming
You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
~ Stephen Richards
Somehow, we each create our own prison, for which only we, hold the key to freedom.
~ Sue J Daniels
Somehow, we each create our own prisons, one for which only we, hold the key.
~ Sue J. Daniels
Being anonymous on help, it's feel's awesome.
~ Nitesh Sabne
Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
~ Edward Snowden
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
~ Assata Shakur
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.
~ Mutabaruka
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
~ James K. Polk
We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.
~ Donald Woods Winnicott
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
~ Frederick Douglass
No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.
~ Larry Flynt
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
~ Vishal Mangalwadi
Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.
~ Robert F. Williams
Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
~ Carl T. Rowan
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
~ William O. Douglas