Quotes about Freedom
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)
— Wendell Berry
No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.
— Wendell Berry
They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.
— Charles Martin
Maybe only an orphan can understand this, but we had been cut free from our anchor and the blow was crushing. We didn't know who we were, and more importantly, we didn't know whose we were -- forever proving that identity precedes purpose. You can't know who you are until you've settled whose you are. [Bones, to Murphy Shepherd, about himself and his brother Frank]
— Charles Martin
Hate is a powerful weapon. But it is powerless when it comes to cutting chains off the human heart.
— Charles Martin
Some are wrestling with painful words spoken over them by someone they love or walking around in chains of their own making.
— Charles Martin
Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.
— Charles Martin
But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.
— Charles Martin
The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.
— Charles Martin
To some, a guitar is just wood and string. To others, it's a shoulder, a jealous mistress, danger, sabbath, a voice in the wilderness, a suit of armor, a curtain to hide behind, a rock to stand on, a flying carpet, a hammer. But sometimes, in moments where light meets the dark, it's a stake we drive in the ground and the darkness rolls back as a scroll.
— Charles Martin
Forgiveness offered—especially when so undeserved—cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.
— Charles Martin
For we alone are the keepers of the letters that set us free.
— Charles Martin