Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"A hungry man is not a free man"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

W. E. B. Du Bois

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may"

Sam Houston, Politician

Sam Houston

"I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality"

John Randolph, Leader

"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections"

Meg Greenfield, Editor

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"The truth is that while those on the left - particularly the far left - claim to be tolerant and welcoming of diversity, in reality, many are quite intolerant of anyone not embracing their radical views"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Sovereignty is not given, it is taken"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

Kemal Ataturk

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France - the nation of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality - to the brink"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"You'll be free or die!"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy"

Alfred E. Smith, Politician

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Author

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