Quotes about Freedom
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
— Martin Luther
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
— Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
— Henry David Thoreau