Quotes About Freedom

How do we fight back? By creating art.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

Life is for my own to live my own way.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

The limitless opportunity of being able to do anything is daunting, but it's also the most rewarding. I'm having the time of my life.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Whose life is it, anyway?

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.