Quotes about Freedom

In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line.

God's time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.

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, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too

One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." HELEN KELLER

What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves, and to feel the steady, imperious surge of the water!

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.