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Quotes About Freedom

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.
~ Wendy Kaminer
Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.
~ David J. Lieberman
Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.
~ Alan Cohen
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.
~ Vaclav Havel
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
~ Bob Menendez
Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free
~ Bob Dylan
I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.
~ Miranda Kerr
I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.
~ Emilio Rivera
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.
~ Malcolm X
My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it.
~ Brad Wenstrup
We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.
~ Harry S. Truman
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
~ Henry James
While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.
~ Herbert Marcuse
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.
~ Salman Rushdie
Respect movements, flee schools.
~ Jean Cocteau
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.
~ Ted Cruz
I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
~ Johnny Carson
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
~ Toni Morrison
After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
~ Malcolm X