Freedom Quotes - Page 32

• Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

  Toni Morrison

  Self, Beloved, Ownership

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 29, 2011

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• Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

  John Hope Bryant

  Education, Money, Determination

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• I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, God, Faith

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• I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

  John Diefenbaker

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

  Maria W. Stewart

  God, Equality, Men

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• For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Men, Law, Land

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

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Inspiring, Army, Ideas

  Subhas Chandra Bose (2004). “The Alternative Leadership: Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters June 1939–1941”, p.197, Orient Blackswan

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• A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Herbert Spencer (1978). “The Principles of Ethics”

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• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Gun Control, Weapons, Socialism

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

  Laurens van der Post

  Fear, Doubt, Democracy

  The Lost World of the Kalahari ch. 3 (1958)

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• Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

  Kara Goucher

  Sports, Running, Mind

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Sep 05, 2013

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  It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Hate, Common Decency

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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  There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it

  William Wallace

  Inspirational, Country, Thinking

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Creativity, Responsibility

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• If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Music, Sports, Football

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

  Leonid Afremov

  Depression, Art, Believe

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• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  Alexander Lowen

  Life, Moving, Self

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

  Alexander Scriabin

  Life, God, Play

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• Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

  Mick Dodson

  Education, Morning, Children

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• The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

  Frank Bettger

  Time, Work, Lying

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

  Jane Elliott

  Teacher, Ignorance, Two

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• American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Confidence, Fashion, Expression

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• In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.

  Ric O'Barry

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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