Quotes about Freedom

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

I'm especially drawn to the sand dunes. I love driving around and exploring them by dune buggy.