Quotes About Freedom

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.

The first amendment gives us the liberty of expression, of religion, and assembly. Sometimes we don't like what people have to say, but that's their right.

Well, first of all, I think that Russia has to have free democratic elections, that means everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted.

There is always something that you will take away from each project. There definitely has to be something that you have said yes to in the first place. In some projects, it's the freedom to express yourself more; in some, it's a bigger sense of camaraderie, and somewhere, it's the money that is great.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I just don't fit into the box.

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I like to come and go as I please which means I'm not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.