Quotes about Freedom

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

The only certain freedom's in departure.