Quotes About Freedom

Ernest Hemingway

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

Go and be fish again.

The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stand, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have the justification for having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they're safe. They're safe with me. They're safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don't want them to feel safe with you any more.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

Implicit in Marxism – as the leap from the Kingdom of Necessity to that of Freedom – there lies the whole so subversive and un-static heritage of the Bible.

When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

most people would rather live in the predictability of captivity than risk the uncertainty that comes in a fight for freedom.

Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life—seize your divine moment. A

You were created to be free. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you're also called to be free.

Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.

Si la esclavitud sigue siendo una opción, nos encontraremos abdicando a nuestra libertad. Sencillamente, por lo general no lo llamamos esclavitud. Lo llamamos seguridad. Lo llamamos comodidad. Lo llamamos responsabilidad.

Questa sventura non la cambierei con la tua servitù, sappilo bene

Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.

És fàcil, per al qui es troba lliure de penes, donar consell i fer avertiments als qui pateixen.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills . . . we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. For generations, these traditional institutions provided order, meaning, continuity, and social support. Dismantling them has left us with more choices and fewer restrictions than ever. We are freer, but also more alone. As Giddens describes it, we have become ontologically more anxious.

Despite living in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom in America, the practice of policing sexuality has continued unabated since the days of the Puritans.

eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom