Quotes about Freedom

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

Don't do anything that isn't play

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.

If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.