Top 100 For Freedom Quotes
#1. You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Malcolm X
#2. I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.
Yoko Ono
#3. When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
Frank Herbert
#4. Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press.
Robert Frost
#5. In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.
Margarita Engle
#6. I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna
#7. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#8. Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.
Hermann E. Ott
#9. Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
Frederick Douglass
#11. At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want ... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#12. How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?
Kyra Davis
#13. The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
Walter Ulbricht
#14. I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
Os Guinness
#15. A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#17. The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
John F. Kennedy
#18. The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#19. I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Oriana Fallaci
#20. Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#21. I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.
Tucker Carlson
#22. If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
Noam Chomsky
#23. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#24. The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
Bell Hooks
#25. Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.
David Whyte
#26. Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
M.I.A.
#27. In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.
Cormac McCarthy
#28. I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.
Dana Perino
#29. nobody loves anything more than freedom. Even love is secondary to freedom; freedom is the highest value. Love can be sacrificed for freedom, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for love.
Osho
#30. Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob Marley
#31. The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
Rene Cassin
#32. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands
#33. We fight not for glory nor for wealth nor honours; but only and alone we fight for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life.
Bernard De Linton
#34. I remember when I left Hungary," Zoltan said, "understanding so completely that literature could save me as much as it could get me killed. Of course it's not like that here. But isn't it funny, that in some ways the price one pays for freedom of speech is ... a kind of indifference.
Daphne Kalotay
#35. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas Paine
#36. I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
Jim Gibbons
#38. Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.
Karyn Henley
#39. The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.
Albert J. Nock
#40. One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.
Jack Sparrow
#41. Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
Marc Morial
#42. We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#43. [I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.
John Updike
#44. What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
Joyce Kilmer
#45. I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.
George W. Bush
#46. The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I
Marlon James
#47. Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!
Paulo Coelho
#48. In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
Doc Hastings
#49. Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene
#50. It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war
yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.
Joseph Sobran
#51. Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
Alice Neel
#52. This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#53. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#54. If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
Winston Churchill
#55. To The Veterans of the United States of America
Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted.
Sara Niles
#56. The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Lamar S. Smith
#57. Was it courage that made her take the last step, or weakness? Was it loss that walked her to the edge, or a search for freedom?
Scot Gardner
#58. We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.
Charles Gilchrist Adams
#59. If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida
#60. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.?
Camille Paglia
#62. The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
Lord Acton
#63. National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra
#64. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands
#65. Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for freedom and has given this craving a folk expression which includes every soul in Israel, every single downtrodden pauperized soul!
Berl Katznelson
#66. The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#67. Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.
T. Harv Eker
#68. In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
James A. Garfield
#69. When there's a star on a flag it stands for freedom. The star points in all directions, it means you can go anywhere you want. That's why I love stars, because they stand for freedom.
Stephen Kelman
#70. For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.
Alan Brinkley
#71. In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.
Carl Sagan
#72. Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
Byron Katie
#73. The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
Ludwig Von Mises
#74. Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Baldwin Spencer
#75. Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.
Ronald Reagan
#76. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
#77. I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.
Paul Gauguin
#79. They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.
Isabel Wilkerson
#80. I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
Thomas Jefferson
#81. America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
Elliott Abrams
#82. Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
#84. A heart's call for freedom can be its own form of bondage in a world of liberty lost.
Bryant McGill
#85. A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri Baraka
#86. Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace.
Brian Staveley
#87. But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times.
James C. Scott
#88. We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.
George W. Bush
#89. The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.
Josiah Warren
#91. I too hope you find everything in life you're looking for - freedom, happiness, and perhaps a little integrity. Best,
Jake Wells
#92. We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
Dario Fo
#93. All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students
I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I'll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.
Pierce Brown
#94. This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.
John Quincy Adams
#95. So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.
Randy Forbes
#96. Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
James Connolly
#97. We do not need to succumb to the temptation to meet such a violation with retaliation. The only way to heal this hurt is to give voice to what ails us. It is only in this way that we can keep our pain and loss from taking root inside us. It is only in this way that we have a chance for freedom.
Desmond Tutu
#98. I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
Muhammad Ali
#99. Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for
individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be
protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.
Michael Shermer
#100. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
George W. Bush
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