Quotes About Freedom

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he'd been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.