7,738 Quotes About Freedom

But freedom might be better than survival.

No matter how much you want to respect someone's freedom (even when you consider it selfish), you still have your own pain, anger, and melancholy to contend with.

Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.

I reminded him of the poverty and hardships he must encounter among strangers. I told him he might be caught and brought back; and that was terrible to think of. He grew vexed, and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery. "Linda," he continued, "we are dogs here; foot-balls, cattle, every thing that's mean. No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.

Cast aside your fear and fight for your future. Fight for freedom.

Many of the slaves believe such stories, and think it is not worth while to exchange slavery for such a hard kind of freedom. It is difficult to persuade such that freedom could make them useful men, and enable them to protect their wives and children. If those heathen in our Christian land had as much teaching as some Hindoos, they would think otherwise. They would know that liberty is more valuable than life.

Freedom is not a project. It is a lifelong trust exercise with the God in you: it is about honouring your humanity in all its gore and glory. Freedom is a hymn and a holler. Freedom is simply believing that your life matters.

I do the equivalent of not voting, I vote third party. I dare to dream.

If you chain a free soul somewhere, you'll see those chains begin to melt quickly!