Quotes About Freedom

I nodded—I liked Tom of Finland, but I'd never thought of his work as utopian, as being part of any utopia I'd wanted to live in, though our differences were plotted so far apart on the timeline that bound us that I conceded that post-Stonewall, post-AIDS-crisis, my position was rather cushy and I could do whatever I wanted and no one cared, it was already on tv and the internet anyway.

He was not a man to inspire devotion. He had lost his throne in the most ignominious of ways and, once removed from Scotland, was content to allow others to risk their lives and lands on his behalf. But Wallace and Soules were not romantics. They were under no illusions as to Balliol's quality. Hard-headed and practical, they saw in Balliol a symbol of choice and therefore of freedom.

Stay together," he said, helping Marte amid the surging crowd. "At least we're off that godforsaken train. Look . . . " He pointed upward to letters forming an arch high above the gate. "What does it say, Papa?" Lucy asked. It was in German. "Work will set you free. See, you have to get strong again, Marte. If we work here, we will be safe. You'll see.

For them, going where they were treated best did not mean being unpatriotic or abandoning their home. It was the embodiment of everything it meant to 'be an American.' Nothing has changed about that drive to explore and thrive in the world's final frontiers; and having that drive today is the furthest thing from being unpatriotic. What

We felt uncomfortable in a country that called itself "the land of the free" but did not do much to qualify for the claim.

Dü?manlar?n her biri; "özgürlü?ü savunmakta", "demokrasiyi sürdürmekte" ya da "adaleti desteklemekte" oldu?unu ileri sürerek tart??abilir, kavga edebilir ve hatta sava?abilir. Sorun, "özgürlük", "demokrasi" ya da "adalet" gibi sözcüklerin, farkl? insanlar için farkl? anlamlara gelmesidir; bundan dolay? da kavramlar?n kendileri sorunluymu? gibi görünmeye ba?larlar.

In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed to slavery. They believed that all were equal in the sight of God, criticized the categories of race and class, and embraced the cause of freedom for African Americans.

The Baptist teaching that all are equal in the sight of God seemed to run right up against the notion that any human being had a right to own another.

The keystone of slavery in its new guise was the system of convict labor, which entrapped hundreds of thousands of black men in a permanent state of terror and involuntary servitude, and which kept the entire black community in a state of quiet, fearful resignation.

A principal leader of the revival movement in east Tennessee was Samuel Doak, the Presbyterian minister who had delivered his famous "Sword of the Lord" sermon in 1780 sending the Tennessee militia off to defeat the British. As the fires of revival flared up in the 1800s, Doak converted to abolitionism, freed all his slaves, and then traveled the countryside preaching that any true Christian would condemn and work to end the institution of slavery.

The logic of evangelical Protestants in the 18th century led to an inescapable conclusion: If God was indeed no respecter of persons, and if all were equal in the sight of God—men and women, young and old, rich and poor, white and colored—then Christians had no business owning slaves or benefitting from their labor and suffering, and slavery itself was a crime against God.

It was the work of all true Christians, Wesley urged, to act as instruments of God for the suppression of slavery.

I'd met him sitting in his car outside a men's room at the boat ramp in a town in North Central Florida. But at least once, in London, love and sex had been combined in the same person—love, sex, art, and freedom.

That night he got up out of bed and put on his maroon polo shirt, which everyone said he looked so handsome in, and went downstairs and drove off in his car, where he did not know. He just drove.

History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism.

As soon as I got rich, it was mimosas every morning. I was taking my friends to Six Flags every weekend. We were flying to Hawaii; we did whatever we wanted.

Well, the announcement to say that I was no longer a member of Vampire Weekend was something that was in the works for a long time. I knew that it was the right choice for me.

Whenever I have the slightest opportunity, I just take off somewhere, be it a road trip or just going away for the weekend.

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.

Paul Ryan wants his weekends free? Fine - let's give him all 365 days free.

I feel like I get all the good parts of college, cause I just college hop on the weekends and party with them, but I don't have to do any of the school part or the work part.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.