Freedom Quotes
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
Adam Michnik
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan
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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
William Beveridge
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb
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The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
Bill Frist
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I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.
Sarah Silverman
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Desmond Tutu
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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
Gary Johnson
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For freedom's battle, once begun,Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Lord Byron
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Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
Dave Brubeck
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Education is freedom.
Paulo Freire
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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Langston Hughes
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Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.
Margaret Thatcher
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells
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The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Olof Palme
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
A. Philip Randolph
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
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I joined this party because I believe in freedom. We are the only party believing that if you give people freedom and responsibility, they will grow stronger and society will grow stronger.
David Cameron
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
Gary Herbert
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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein