Quotes About Freedom

I miss my room. I miss my bed. I miss being a little punk with no care in the world, giving two fucks about it, just looking for trouble. I guess I found it.

First you have to lose your debts; as long as you're in debt, you're not free," he explained. "Then you have to get some breathing space so you can go in a new direction, but above all you need to know what you want from life.

Im Grunde, erkannte sie, stimmt es gar nicht, dass man als Mensch freie Entscheidungen trifft. Wenn es um wichtige Dinge geht, dann wählt man nicht "frei", sondern man wählt die Option, die man für die bessere hält - und das Problem ist, dass man das meistens nicht weiß. Also entscheidet man eigentlich nicht, sondern man rät, und das mit mehr oder weniger Glück.

Talk! Talk! Talk!' he exclaimed after yet another convention of a pacifist abolitionist society. 'That will never free the slaves! What is needed is action – action.

Choose to choose. One of the great traps of life is being stuck. Stuck in a job you don't like, a relationship that has run its course, your level of healthiness or wealth are all things that you can change if you invoke the right and privilege to choose to choose. Trapping yourself in your own thoughts is a formula for failure and an unhappy life.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific-democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Such criticisms of America and the American way of life focused specifically on countering popular myths about abundance, ease of life, and freedom, insisting that "America is anything but a paradise . . . one has to work a lot harder than in Germany to get anywhere.

Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.

there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

she would often remind herself that her thoughts were free no matter how oppressive her life might sometimes feel.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. "I don't want to die," she whispered, "but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

Another fugitive, writing in the 1820s compared the sight of the whipped slave's black to that of 'a field lately ploughed' and proposed with scalding irony that 'if it were not for the stripes on my back' he would bequent his own skin to the government to be used as parchment wrapping for tht 'charter of American liberty' the US Constitution.

The Douglass of the memoirs is a paragon. There is little trace in him of the man who sometimes must have been petty, impulsive and vain--not a piece of property to be utilized in one way or another but, as one putative friend complained, a "haughty" and "self-possessed' man with the low as well as exalted desires that constitute freedom. To pretend otherwise is to treat him once again as less than human.

Typee was Melville's version of this American dream—not the dream of raising one's status in the world as it is, but the dream of starting over, getting out from under, and putting it all away to discover life anew. 6.

Cutting to the heart of the matter, Lincoln made the irrefutable point: "People of any color seldom run, unless there be something to run from." Two SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDERS 1.

The rebellion was over, the Union restored, and after more than two centuries there was no more slavery from which to run. The vast work of repairing its human devastation had barely begun.

And yet vile as it was, the fugitive slave law was also, ironically, a gift to antislavery activists, both black and white, because wherever it was enforced, it allowed them to show off human beings dragged back to the hell whence they came—a more potent aid to the cause than any speech or pamphlet.

Nothing during the American struggle against the slave system did more to wean religious and God-fearing men and women from the old interpretation of Scripture than the use of it to justify slavery.

Liberate yourself by hurling excrement at what ought to be covered in shit anyway.

On Fire Island, you drifted, floated in a lazy river of other people's pheromones and bodily fluids, toward whatever house or cock or ass or what, whatever you wanted, that the current brought you to.