Quotes about Freedom

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.

The free society does not guarantee virtue any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed: it has to be won through personal striving.

Republicans, meanwhile, to one degree or another, all opposed slavery. The party itself was founded to stop slavery.

The morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.

By contrast, Blanche K. Bruce was the real deal. Born into slavery in Virginia, Bruce was freed by his master and studied at Oberlin College before becoming a successful farmer and landowner. He is the only former slave to have served in the U.S. Senate.