Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Naomi Klein

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Miroslav Volf

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

R. D. Laing

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Nelson Mandela

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Nelson Mandela

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

Nelson Mandela

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

Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Omar N. Bradley

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

Oprah Winfrey

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Margaret Atwood

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Margaret Chase Smith

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Mark Twain

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Paul Robeson

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Paul Robeson

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Paul Robeson

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

Paul Gauguin

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

Patrick McGoohan

I am not a number, I am a free man!

Lillian Hellman

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Lester Maddox

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Leon Trotsky

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.