freedom

"You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts."

"To us it appears natural to think that slaves are human beings; men, not property; that some of the things, at least, stated about men in the Declaration of Independence apply to them as well as to us…"

"You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's …"

"Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government."

"Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary."

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

"The main enemy of the people is the state. The state does everything it can do to get more and more control over people’s lives and access to more of their data while cutting down on personal freedom …"

"Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words."

"The real emancipation of the Chinese people from age-long slavery would be impossible without the great, sincerely democratic enthusiasm which is rousing the working masses and making them capable of …"

"The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same th…"

"The feeling of having free will is deep in us and we are reluctant to give it up for ourselves—but we are often willing to deny it to others!"

"No law can give freedom to a people which is dependent upon some power or authority outside themselves for the necessaries of life. The owners of the means of life can dictate the terms upon which all…"

"Mutual aid is the way to prevent the third world war. Mutual aid is also the way to stop the internal growth of Communism by providing our people with plenty, security and freedom."

"Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in any thing better than despotism."

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."

"One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping."

"It is easy to pick up a weapon and in a short while become a reasonably good shot. This makes it extremely easy for the virtually untrained individual to come to believe that he is an expert in ballis…"

"Because of the space between stimulus and response, people have the power of choice; therefore, leaders are neither born nor made — meaning environmentally trained and nurtured. They are self-made thr…"

"During the last years of the war I went to live in BROOKLYN in the most forlorn region of the oceanic tragic city, in Williamsburg, near the bridge. Brooklyn gave me a sense of liberation. The vast vi…"

"We’re moving from a semi-democratic to a semi-authoritarian system and the central government wants to limit our freedoms."