Freedom Summer Quotes

#1. As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

Victoria Gray Adams

#2. Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Danny Glover

#3. Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here.

Laura Kreitzer

#4. Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing.

Jordan Castillo Price

#5. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

Doug McAdam

#7. Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

Tom Hodgkinson

#8. The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love - that was my summer of 1979.

Ella Leya

#10. From sandwich to summer school, they were the symbols of subservience and the enemies of freedom.

J.G. Ballard

#11. The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.

Robin Benway

#12. After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

Dennis Miller

#13. This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.

Deborah Wiles

#14. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

Anna Godbersen

#15. I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground.

Steffan Rhodri

#16. Stevia does something funny to the chemistry of my mouth. There's no fooling a taste bud, in my experience.

Jonathan Franzen

#17. It was the awakening summer of 1960 and the entire country was in labor. Something wonderful was about to be born, and we were all going to be good parents to the welcome child. Its name was Freedom. Then,

Maya Angelou

#18. But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!

Ariana Grande

#19. If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#20. Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

Robert Henri

#21. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

Jim Morrison