Freedom Quotes

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, 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.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.