Freedom
"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882, U.S. poet
"Only the educated are free."
- Epictetus, 55 AD-135 AD, Roman (Greek-born) slave and Stoic philosopher
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose. The right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
- Archibald MacLeish, a.k.a. Archibald Fleming, 1892-1982, American poet
"He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide."
- Salvador de Madariaga, 1886-1978, Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations
"There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free."
- The Siri Singh Sahib a.k.a. Yogi Bhajan, 1929- , chief religious and administrative authority for the Ministry of Sikh Dharma in the Western Hemisphere
"Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were
many others who felt the same way.
- Rosa Parks, 1913- , civil right pioneer
"The whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life.
Act by yourself!"
- Jane Fonda, 1937- , American actress
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, U.S. author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician and printer
"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it
merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first
of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them --
and then, the opportunity to choose."
- C. Wright Mills, 1916-1962, maverick social scientist
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are
free."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German dramatist, novelist, poet and scientist
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom."
- Marilyn Ferguson, 1938- , author, editor and publisher
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