Quotes about Freedom
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
- Anne Lamott
While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.
- Barack Obama
To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.
- Chris Fabry
Resisting tyranny is obeying God.
- Thomas Jefferson
So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.
- Watchman Nee
We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.
- Malala Yousafzai
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
- Oswald Chambers
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
- Rob Bell
Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.
- Ronald Reagan
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
- Desmond Tutu