Quotes about Freedom

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.