Quotes About Independence

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.