It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.

And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.