Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.