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Freedom

Quotations from the Wayside

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty.
FRANCIS BACON

Freedom is the fire which burns away illusion.
JAMES BALDWIN

If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

The liberty of all is necessary for the liberty of each.
H. J. BLACKMAN

Let us hold fast to the right of private judgment.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

Freedom without consecration is only another form of slavery.
FREDERICK MAY ELIOT

A slave is someone who cannot speak their thought.
EURIPIDES

Without freedom of expression, liberty of thought is a mockery.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Freedom is to be in possession of oneself.
HEGEL

Man’s ability to surpass himself is the essence of freedom.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL

Essentially, freedom means becoming more
ambiguous.
IVAN ILLICH

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man’s consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The best security for freedom in any society is to practice it.
JOSEPH R. MORRAY

When you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
LOUISE NEVELSON

They alone are truly secure who ask not to be safe, but free.
W. W. ROSE

It is madness to abolish freedom because some abuse it.
HAROLD SCOTT

Freedom of each to utter means freedom of all to learn.
WAITSTILL SHARP

Emancipation means equal status for different roles.
ARIANNA STASSINOPOULOS

The annihilation of the individual is the worst perversity of man.
W. L. SULLIVAN

What is the value of political freedom but as a means to moral freedom?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

To be deprived of freedom is to become either a chattel or an animal.
J. E. TURNER

We don’t want our chains made more bearable. We want our chains removed.
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

The liberty you possess is the work of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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