Freedom Quotes - Page 38

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.

Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.