Quotes about Freedom

Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life is to be, which it demands from the individual and from nations.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

True freedom is living without fear.

Freedom is the soul of every country, it is the birthright of every human being.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

When you get to a point where you don't have to impress anyone, your freedom will begin.

Freedom is not the absence of commitment, but the ability to choose.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who h

Being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Freedom is the wind in our sails, the journey to becoming who we are meant to be.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Your body is your temple. You have the right to express yourself however you choose.

To die for the national cause is to live forever.

The human being who has lost his humanity is by definition a human being without any will or personality.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Freedom is living life on your own terms.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Freedom is the right of every human being.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

He who is brave is free.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

National liberation is a social reality.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Freedom is not the absence of obligations, but the ability to choose your own path.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.