Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Washington, George

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we let 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 that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.