Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion
I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
Untie, liberate, and do not be afraid. He who is free is disarmed.
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
