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.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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.

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

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

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.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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.

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

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Effective action is always unjust.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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