Freedom Quotes - Page 15

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

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• Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Mean, Land

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.50, David M Gross

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• That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Numbers, Way

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• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  4th Of July, Learning, Self

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• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Political, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin

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• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Tree, Liberty

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.594, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

  Wendell Phillips

  Jealous, People, Liberty

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• Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

  Max Stirner

  Fall, Men, Uprising

  Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.

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• The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Want

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• Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

  Oscar Arias

  Men, Reality, People

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• In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

  Jim Harrison

  Dog, Chains

  Jim Harrison, “Barking”

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

  Rosa Parks

  Desire, Way, Individual

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• Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, 4th Of July, Liberty

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.11, Routledge

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• Each painting evolves freely and independently.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Painting, Unique Experiences, Evolve

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• The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story. You don’t have to believe that voice in your head. You don’t have to believe your own thinking. You can simply observe it and say, “Thank you for sharing,” and then take the necessary action you’re scared to take anyway.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Thank You, Believe

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Law

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India

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• In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

  Peter Ustinov

  America, Choices, Individuality

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Order, Giving

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mean, Lists, Chance

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• 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!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Spiritual, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

  Russell Means

  Being Free, Way, Worthwhile

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• The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Thinking, Inspire

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