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.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

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

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

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

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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

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.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.