Quotes about Freedom

There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.