Quotes About Freedom

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

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

Hope is a thing with feathers

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free ... and I won't...

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

Wherever there are birds, there is hope.