Quotes About Freedom

in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

And could love free me from the shadows? Can a caged bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?)

The end of exile is the end of being.

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. Her freedom will be a condition of personal privilege that deprives those on which she exercises it of her own freedom. The most extreme kind of this deprivation is murder. These women murder.

She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

ESCAPING SLOWLY

This world's a vile oubliette. Yet in its refuse I will find the key to free me.

What joy it is to dance and sing!

I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs!

One of Sade's cruellest lessons is that tyranny is implicit in all privilege. My freedom makes you more unfree, if it does not acknowledge your freedom, also.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Jani understood that all Freedom needed was to trust -- and, eventually, to love. And it was love -- the love that glowed in Freedom's beautiful, expressive eyes -- that had freed her. She had overcome her past, and released herself from her own curse.

should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.

We took the words of God's guidance in the Torah and fashioned them into cages in which we felt secure. For

We were all bought with a price, so we are all slaves to Yeshua. Each one should remain in whatever situation he was called, unless the Lord provides a legitimate escape.

You may not see the end of the occupation, but you can trust that freedom for Israel is part of the Lord's plan.

or as swift as men, but did we not have the same right to live freely and make choices?

Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.

Being alive isn't a betrayal. Being afraid to live is.

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Um, am I the only person who is walking around without underwear on today? I know I can't be. This isn't the first time this has happened to me, and I know if it's happened to me more than once, it's happened to someone else at least one time. I'm three quarters short of clean draws.