Quotes About Freedom

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.

Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

You always hear all these statements like "Freedom isn't free." You hear the President talking about all these people making sacrifices. But you never really know until you carry one of them in a casket. When you feel their bodyweight. When you feel them. That's when you know. That's when you understand.

You always hear all these statements like "freedom isn't free." You hear the president talking about all these people making sacrifices. But you never really know until you carry one of them in the casket. When you feel their body weight. When you feel them, that's when you know. That's when you understand. —MARINE STAFF SERGEANT KEVIN THOMAS

The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.

As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his "I Have a Dream" speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."1 King's dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.

Involuntary servitude was banned by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, but nothing was done to confront the ideology of white supremacy. Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about, Riding with the wind.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

Music is my religion.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.