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FREEDOM QUOTES

 

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* I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

* We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson


* The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
-- Robert F. Kennedy

* "Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won -- you earn it and win it in every generation."
-- Coretta Scott King

* 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 the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

* freedom rings resoundingly in a democracy each time we speak freely.
-- Dennis Kucinich

the light of freedom cannot be extinguished as long as it is inside of us.
-- Dennis Kucinich

freedom stirs the human heart and fear stills it.
-- Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
-- Dennis Kucinich

* "Please use your freedom to promote ours."
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

* Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln

* “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
-- John Locke

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
-- Kenny Loggins

* Running away will never make you free.
-- Kenny Loggins

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
-- Archibald MacLeish

* "I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
-- Madonna

 

You cannot separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
--Malcolm X

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude – and a lot less greed.
- - Michelle Malkin

* “Emancipate yourselves
from mental slavery.
None but ourselves
can free our minds.
Won't you help to sing
The songs of freedom?”
-- Bob Marley

* “Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.”
-- Thurgood Marshall

* All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
-- George Mason

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
-- Neil A. McDonald

* Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest
-- Russell Means

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.
-- Russell Means

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.
-- Russell Means

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

* You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.
-- Russell Means

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
-- Marianne Moore

* We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
-- Edward R. Murrow

"If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought."
-- Edward R. Murrow

 

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