The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of...

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Happy Independence Day! Let Freedom Stream!!!

It’s dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom’s not an idea, it’s a passion! If you haven’t got it you fight like a fish out of...

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

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage....

…we’re constantly waking up to what we’re about, what we’re really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that’s painful. But there’s no possibility of freedom without this pain.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

No hay lugar para el místico que soy dentro del ateo que represento. Y no es problema de Dios -hace tiempo abandoné a Dios-; es conflicto de identidad, de realidad.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

Jarod Kintz Day—it’s not just my birthday, but it should be a holiday that’s mandatory to celebrate, punishable by death if you don’t. It’ll be a holiday that honors freedom.

What would you rather have, peace or freedom?

A forest bird never wants a cage.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it’s their nature to do it.

It’s hard to steal somebody’s shoes while they are wearing them and not have them notice. But that’s what politicians have done in this country. Not only that, but they replaced all our footwear with...

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

A real patriot doesn’t unconditionally stick up for his government—he stands up for freedom.

Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Every day, when you’re on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool’s way, the coward’s way.

Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander’s banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men’s souls are tired of the...

Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked...

So long as you believe yourself to be ‘only human’ you have accepted life in a prison cell whose door remains locked only by your own mind.By saying, ‘well, I’m only human’, you have blindly...

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through...

This very worrying trial has major implications for human rights, media freedom and democratization in Ethiopia. It will be a crucial test of the independence and impartiality of the Ethiopian judiciary.

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we’re all part of the conversation.

There’s a way that money is freedom, but it isn’t money, it’s that money stands for having a choice.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and...

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free… 🙂 and humans will see…

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a prayer before eating: God is kind, God is good, And we thank him...

Freedom found me the day I realized I was not bound to witchcraft. The FATHER was waiting, He was scanning the horizon for the day I would realize I could come home. And He ran...

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

FreedomIs a strong seedPlantedIn a great need.I live here, too.I want freedomJust as you.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong,...

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in...

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you’ll be set free forever.

He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. “Hate to do this, Bill,” he said of the fungi he was murdering. “Fungi have as much right to life...

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom and equality. He defended the rights of Palestinians, their freedom and independence.