Quotes about Freedom

God created us free to choose how we would live... but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

Our problems boil down to one of moral choices. God wanted a world based on moral values, thus He created mankind with the ability to respond to moral choices. Faced with the moral option of living selfishly or unselfishly, people can and do make wrong decisions. We are free to choose, but we reap the consequences of bad moral decisions.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

We're leaving BabylonWe're going to our Father's land.

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'cause none of them can stop the time.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?

Get up, stand up; stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up; don't give up the fight!

During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother. This was not unnatural. The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the labour of the Negro.