Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I do think that our freedoms are at risk"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

Clarence Thomas

"Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I'm neither Democrat nor Republican"

Calvin Klein, Designer

Calvin Klein

"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority"

James Reston, Journalist

"Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect"

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point"

Roh Moo-hyun, Politician

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

John Wycliffe

"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free"

Joseph de Maistre, Diplomat

"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Robert Mugabe

"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin"

Muammar al-Gaddafi, Leader

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures"

Geronimo, Statesman

"They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken"

Bobby Sands, Activist

Bobby Sands

"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

Eldridge Cleaver

"The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"The State is a violent criminal organization that lives off a coercive source of income called taxes"

Javier Milei, President

Javier Milei

"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum"

Lisa Murkowski, Politician

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Steven Biko, Activist

Steven Biko

"Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance"

Lisa Murkowski, Politician

"To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road"

Crystal Waters, Musician

"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long"

Boris Yeltsin, President

Boris Yeltsin

"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it"

Boris Yeltsin, President

Boris Yeltsin

"In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry"

Rick Perry, Politician

Rick Perry

"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"

James Connolly, Politician

"Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us"

Dennis Chavez, Politician

"Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But you're certainly entitled to your opinion"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed"

Erich Honecker, Politician

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