Quotes About Liberty

Uvjerio sam se, naime, o neoborivoj ?injenici da nijedan narod na svijetu, kraj svih ljubaznih, praznih rije?i, filozofiranja o protivnom, još nikada nije stekao svoju slobodu dobro?udnim brbljanjem i moralnim uvjeravanjem: nepromjenjivi je zakon da sve revolucije koje žele imati uspjeha moraju po?eti u krvi, bez obzira na to što ?e biti poslije.

To do so is condescending to that group, we don't hold them up to the same moral standard to which we hold ourselves, and it is grossly unfair to the women, who are simply being told that because they are tribal women, or whatever, they do not enjoy the same guarantees of liberty that other women do.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

freedom is not given, it is won.

I am free, you see, she said, to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else. I love you, he said again.

I am free, you see, she said, to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. That is why I love you, and it is the way I love you.

siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it.

The mind is by its nature free, not a slave; only what it does by itself and willingly is successful.

The only freedom that exists is of a metaphysical character. In the physical world freedom is an impossibility.

Dava l'impressione di essere sfuggita al guinzaglio. Come se stesse camminando libera mentre tutti gli altri venivano portati a spasso come animali dometici. Quasi ci stese guardando rispettosamente, un po' sovrappensiero, da una certa distanza, mentre noi avanzavamo trotterellando, grati ai nostri padroni, felici di perpetuare la nostra schiavitù.

Io non sposerò nessuno mi rispose. Quando le chiesi perché, mi spiegò che voleva essere libera di morire in modo irresponsabile, senza preavviso e senza motivo.

be free to die irresponsibly, without notice and for no reason.

Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people—the young and the old—a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the Independent self.

I feel, therefore I can be free.

This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty hging as spoils to the victor or the stronger. So instead of joining together to fight for more, we quarrel between ourselves for a larger slice of the one pie.

This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty going as spoils to the victor or the stronger.

Please use your liberty to promote ours

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.