Quotes About Freedom

David Ponder, I say to you now that this is the first time in history that men have fought to set another man free. Most of us Maine boys have never even seen black skin on a man, but if it is true that all men are created equal, then we are fighting for each other. We are fighting because it is the right thing to do." The

My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.

The unmistakable truth about forgiveness is that it is not a reward that must be earned; forgiveness is a gift to be given. When I give forgiveness, I free my own spirit to release the anger and hatred harbored in my heart. By granting forgiveness, I free my spirit to pursue my future happily and unencumbered by the anchors of my past. And forgiveness, when granted to others, becomes a gift to myself.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.

If you start to accumulate things, you can't travel, so I lived without. I figured I could live a whole life without anything,

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

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It occurred to me that I had been extraordinarily fortunate to have grown up in a prosperous country in an era when, for pretty much the first time in its history, I could read whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted to. And what had I done with this freedom? I had slowly, though unintentionally, abused it. My reading life had become an accumulation of bad habits, short cuts and lies.

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

Art is what you can get away with.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Yes, dangerous: think a little, if you're capable of thought, and you'll see that it's safer to obey a law however stupid it may be than to act freely; because to act freely, unless you're as wicked as certain emperors, is to seek a just law; and if you make a mistake, you've taken the first step towards power, which is what destroys men.

Las palabras son hijas de la carne y como tales se pudren si se las guarda encerradas.

Shame is a hold that sin uses on you. As long as you're ashamed of the sin, it has a hold on you. When you can name it and walk away from it, you're walking in the power of God. That's what the Lord wants from His people. Sin and shame have no place in the life of a man or woman of God.

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat.