Quotes About Freedom

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.