Quotes about Freedom

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.

If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

We sometimes use the term "savior complex" to describe an unhealthy syndrome of obsession over curing others' problems. The true Savior, however, seemed remarkably free of such a complex. He had no compulsion to convert the entire world in his lifetime or to cure people who were not ready to be cured.

Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?