Quotes About Independence

My public life began in 1893 in South Africa in troubled weather. My first contact with British authority in that country was not of a happy character. I discovered that as a man and an Indian I had no rights. More correctly, I discovered that I had no rights as a man because I was an Indian. M.K. Gandhi, Defence in a trial for sedition, 1922

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do.

What I've learned. . . . I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.

A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.

UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?

We are sick and tired of living in debt and slavery,' the Rakalovsk peasants had their chairperson write. 'We want space and light.

classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.

I didn't tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbour?s tiles.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

I broke at last the terror-fringed fascination that bound my ancient gaze to those crowding faces of plunder and seized my remnant life in a miracle of decision between white collar hands and shook it like a cheap watch in my ear and threw it down beside me on the earth floor and rose to my feet.

It's realizing that I can do this. I'm in charge.