Freedom Quotes - Page 33

• For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sports, Running, Feelings

  Runner's World magazine, June 2009.

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

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Confidence, Fashion, Expression

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• Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.

  Noah Webster

  Success, Bible, Education

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• Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Children

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2013

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• It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

  Lucy Burns

  Women, Rights, Government

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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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• 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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• 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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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Real, Cutting

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• 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.

  Muhammad Ali

  Humorous, Equality, Men

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jul 26, 2012

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• No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

  Ron Paul

  Acceptance, Rights, Government

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• The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Urbanization, Rights

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Tired, Apology

  "ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm". "Good Morning America", www.newsbusters.org. August 31, 2007.

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• I want a society free of human trafficking

  Anuradha Koirala

  Society, Want, Human Rights

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• Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

  Harvey Mackay

  Money, Business, Heart

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• Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

  Diane Nash

  Motivational, Leadership, Believe In Yourself

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

  Learned Hand

  Lying, Heart, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Struggle, Learning

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Time, Fear

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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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• 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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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Exercise, Power

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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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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