Quotes about Independence

I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.

In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.

He believed, as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefore the Negro should leave America to the white man and return to his African land of origin.

Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

From my tutor: not to become a 5Green or Blue supporter at the races, or side with the Lights or Heavies in the amphitheatre; to tolerate pain and feel few needs; to work with my own hands and mind my own business; to be deaf to malicious gossip.

He is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.

How to act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don't gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a citizen, a Roman, a ruler. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing no oath or witness. Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people's help. Or serenity supplied by others. To stand up straight—not straightened.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you