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“The simple right to reproductive freedom - to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction - is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Quote by -Epictetus
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Quote by -Epictetus
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will... Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our individual selves.”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
“There are two types of approval: one is from people, and the other is from God. We want people to approve of us, but if we become addicted to their approval, if we have to have it and are ready to do whatever they demand to get it, we lose our freedom. If we trust God for approval, we are freed from the addiction of approval.”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you express your opinion that his lifestyle is disgusting and his art, music or writing is crude, shallow, or repugnant, but unless you are free to reach such conclusions, any praise you bestow is hollow and suspect.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“Kant’s insistence, in his defense of the French Revolution, that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
Quote by -Albert Camus
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
Quote by -Albert Camus
“Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.”
Quote by -Abraham Lincoln
“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
Quote by -Margaret Atwood
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Quote by -Henrik Ibsen
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
“The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. ”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny, because the power of a just cause is based on conviction, and leads to resolute and uncompromising action.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire or preserve his freedom.”
Quote by -Malcolm X