Quotes related to Isaiah 61:1
The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.
— James H. Cone
Any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.
— James H. Cone
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
— James Madison
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.
— James Madison
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
— Alain de Botton
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
— Tertullian
Today unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound;Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue, sound!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This young century will be liberty's century.
— George W. Bush
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
— Joseph Brodsky
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
— Robert Frost
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
— Thomas Jefferson
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln