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.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

He who is brave is free.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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

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

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.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

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

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.