Freedom Quotes

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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

- Tara Brach

Freedom lies in bold action.

- Robert Frost

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

- Bob Dylan

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

- John Locke

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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

- Tara Brach

The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner.

- Paulo Freire

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course -- because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

- Alice Miller

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

- A. Philip Randolph

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

- Anne Sullivan

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

- James F. Cooper

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

- Betty Ford

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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.

- bell hooks

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- Louis D. Brandeis

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

- Susan B. Anthony

No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

- H. L. Mencken

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

- Rabindranath Tagore

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

- Heinrich Heine

Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there's a freedom in realizing this, a new freedom to move or stay, new necessities and possibilities of choice.

- Betty Friedan

Without community, there is no liberation.

- Audre Lorde

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

- Mortimer Adler

Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz of Persia

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

- Bill Gates