Freedom

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel.

People who are detained (held in prison) are locked up by their past, and because you are locked up by your past you are held hostage by your yesterdays. And if you are held hostage by your yesterdays, you cannot see your tomorrows. -- Rev. Earl Smith, author, Death Row Chaplain, creator of IMPACT (Incarcerated Men Putting Away Childish Things).

Socialism means slavery.

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

We often build our lives in a way that shuts out freedom.