Quotes About Freedom

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Live with no time-out.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

It's better to look at the sky than live there

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.