Quotes about Independence
There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But, on the whole, every individual and every race must work out its own salvation.
- Booker T. Washington
There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
- Harriet Tubman
It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.
- Helen Keller
What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves, and to feel the steady, imperious surge of the water!
- Helen Keller
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
- Abraham Lincoln
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
- Muhammad Ali
It's interesting to see how 'Arth' still touches a chord in people's hearts all these years later. Men were very hostile when the film was shown in 1984. They were angry and said things like I'm teaching women wrong things by saying they have the choice to walk out of their husband's home if they are cheated upon.
- Shabana Azmi
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
- Marianne Williamson
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
- Jason Fried
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
- Dan Quayle
Look there above the center, where the flag is waving bright; We are going out of slavery, we are bound for freedom's light; We mean to show Jeff Davis how the Africans can fight...
- Sojourner Truth
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.
- Bruce Lee