7,738 Quotes About Freedom
- Author Laura Kelly
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Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom is.""Say it in your language to your peers," I urge.Gyerji makes his statement. The class grows silent and thoughtful; there is much nodding. Twain perhaps? Emerson? Diana sidles up and whispers in my ear. "He says to them that freedom is a word when nothing is anymore able to be losed."Janis Joplin, de-syntaxed.
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- Author Jonathan Franzen
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Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden.
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- Author Emma Lazarus
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Berikan kepadaku mereka yang lelah dan papaYang terbelenggu dan mendambakan kebebasanYang terbanting ke pantaimu, berimpitan lemasBeri aku para gelandangan, dan yang terhempasAkan kunyalakan pelitaku di sisi gerbang emas
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- Author James Otis
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I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.
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- Author Deb Caletti
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I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.
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- Author Guy Gavriel Kay
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If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.
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- Author J R Ortiz
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I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth
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- Author Langston Hughes
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.
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- Author Kamand Kojouri
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Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.
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