I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom : the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink