Quotes About Freedom

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter parent' to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well.

What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

I'm really lucky in the sense that I have the privilege of being able to pick and choose what I do and only pick projects I really love and feel I can bring something to and I can learn from.

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.

Befikre' is not just about two characters. There is another very prominent third character, and that is Paris.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

I wasn't dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea... I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl of rice.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.