Quotes About Independence

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in love with me.

do not look for healingat the feet of thosewho broke you

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

To change masters is not to be free.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

Being free is a state of mind.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.