Quotes about Independence

To believe in people, to believe in each person's inherent ability to think, feel, solve problems, and take care of themselves is a great gift we can give and receive from others.

Do you know you have a right to become as healthy as you want, no matter what your family does or doesn't do? Do you know you can love

You can spoil your fun, your day, your life—that's your business—but I won't let you spoil my fun, my day, or my life.

There is no freedom without bravery.

I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened… Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, Do you have a brain? And if the answer was yes, then she said, Then you could have thought your way out of it.

Freedom cannot last long without education, because an uneducated populace is likely to be duped by tyrants. An educated populace cannot be easily manipulated and is the foundation of a strong society.

I believe that many of our pressing racial problems will be taken care of when we who are among the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation.

The real question is, will we as Americans, accustomed to freedom, continue to sheepishly submit to the purveyors of political correctness without recognizing its erosive effects on our freedom?

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.

Nobody gets the right to keep you in a pit.