Quotes About Freedom

And don't forget, citizens: the ban on stargazing is still in effect.

You can't leave me. I'm your captive," she said. "What good's a captive without her captor?

The million different answers to 'Why not let it go?' have just as many good ones among them as the million you can get from 'Why should I let it go?

Let us be as the Cage has never been able to make us. Let us now all at once face forward in our boxes, still and silent as nightmares. We did.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

The worst thing about Communism is what comes after.

Spotykam ludzi – z rozros?ymi barki, Z piersi? szerok?, z oty?ymi karki; Jako zwierz?ta i drzewa pó?nocy, Pe?ni czerstwo?ci i zdrowia, i mocy. Lecz twarz ka?dego jest jak ich kraina, Pusta, otwarta i dzika równina;(...).

Le?my, szcz??ciem zosta?y pióra do powrotu, Le?my i nigdy odt?d nie zni?ajmy lotu.

as for those of you who are complicit, it is not you that I want to destroy, but your shackles

Look at them on days like that, when the wind is blowing through the boundaries of fresh and stiff, and you will see them for what they are: wind-runners, wind-dancers, the wind-spirits, alive with an evolved ability to live with the wind, in it and on it, drawing out its energy to make their own feathered, mobile, ocean-ranging magnificence.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins:

slaveowners and their allies in the United States tried to protect their country from the most democratic, egalitarian, and terrifying prospect of the Age of Revolution: a generalized slave rebellion.

Nothing is ingrained more deeply in American ideology than that ours is a free country. Yet freedom and slavery were densely entangled in the early United States.

Morgan argued that the attitude of the free people of color toward the United States depended on the policy of the government toward them: "They may be made good citizens or formidable abettors of the black people.

The nineteenth-century abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker said that the moral arc of the world tends towards justice

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

When traditional rules reach so far down that they touch a child's lemonade stand, things have probably gotten a bit out of control.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good. Day after day this is what Jesus did. It is called trust. He calls us: 'Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly" (Matthew 11:30, MSG)

Arise, O Barak; Take your captives, O son of Abinoam!

You could tell a horse everything, and it wouldn't judge you or condemn you or think you stupid. A horse had no opinion at all about the way you looked.

shrug. I don't feel that. I'd settle for being ignored, left alone, unjudged. Unharried. I just want to live my life. I don't need anyone to understand it. 'Do you think? It strikes me as the ultimate in self-absorption, hoping for understanding from others to give meaning to your life. Get over yourself, I say.

Create your own destiny!