Quotes about Freedom

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.

The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.

To some, a guitar is just wood and string. To others, it's a shoulder, a jealous mistress, danger, sabbath, a voice in the wilderness, a suit of armor, a curtain to hide behind, a rock to stand on, a flying carpet, a hammer. But sometimes, in moments where light meets the dark, it's a stake we drive in the ground and the darkness rolls back as a scroll.

Forgiveness offered—especially when so undeserved—cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.

For we alone are the keepers of the letters that set us free.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to stand up for freedom together...

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

The dream is one of equality and opportunity... men will dare to live together as brothers... Whenever it is fulfilled, we will emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glowing daybreak of freedom and justice for all of God's children.

There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.