Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

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

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

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

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

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

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

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.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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.