Quotes About Freedom

Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose abundance!

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

To conform is to lose your soul

the gusto of a broncobuster breaking in the wildest filly in the corral before heading on into the sunset. (In truth, we are in a hillside suite at the Chateau Marmont. But considering Yuri's attitude toward women, the cowboyspeak sums things up quite nicely.)

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.

Can't stop the signal

I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.

There's so much you thought you could never face. The decision not to try to control your power, to let it be your demon. Too shameful to remember, so you let it eat your life up instead. But you're past it now, Scott. And all you had to defeat, all you had to let go of...was you. You're free, my love. You're free.

Home. Home is just a word. Thin on meaning. It's a word that can hold you hostage, keep you from living your life.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

When William Johnson and slave walked down that long, winding American road toward freedom and justice, they didn't realize they would be speaking out for all those left behind. They learned that it would take hard work to make the words of the Declaration of Independence mean what they said. Ellen and William Craft were willing to do their part.

Alive. This music rocks me. I drive the interstate, watch faces come and go on either side. I am free to be sung to; I am free to sing. This woman can cross any line.

I release you, fear, because you hold these scenes in front of me and I was born with eyes that can never close.

I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind. If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now.

My heart is taken by you and these mornings since I am a horse running towards a cracked sky where there are countless dawns breaking simultaneously. There are two moons on the horizon and for you I have broken loose.

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

Those Old Ones followed me, the quiet girl with the long dark hair, The daughter of a warrior who wouldn't give up. I wasn't ready yet, to fling free the cross I ran and I ran through the 2 A.M. streets. It was my way of breaking free. I was anything but history. I was the wind.

I was anything but history. I was the wind.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.