Quotes about Freedom

In confidence we lay our cause before the whole world. Whether we win or whether we die, freedom will rise in Africa like the sun from the morning clouds.

The struggle is my life.

Een mens die een ander mens van zijn vrijheid berooft, is een gevangene van de haat, opgesloten achter de tralies van vooroordelen en kleingeestigheid.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people.

They reminded us that the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.

We believe we are free, and that God will forgive us. Personally I think otherwise. Finally, transformed into tiny quivering photons, each of our deeds will set off into Outer Space, where the planets will keep watching it like a film until the end of the world.