Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Stone, I. F.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Washington, George

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

42.

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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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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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.