Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

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

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.