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 wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

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

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

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

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

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.

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.

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

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

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.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

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.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

My life is a struggle.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.