The extent to which we experience our freedom from condemnation in Christ is the extent to which we will realize there is no life in performing.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, wrote, "People must be led out of captivity up to God. Be patterns, be examples that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: If the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

If you love something, set it free.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.

But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.