| "We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us" »Andrew Schneider |
| "freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." »Bergen |
| "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." »Kierkegaard |
| "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." »Socrates |
| "freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." »Benjamin Cardozo |
| "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." »Mark Twain |
| "freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." »J. Krishnamurti |
| "Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon |
| "freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this freedom give big brother, the opportunity to dictate our way of life???" »Larry Levesque |
| "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." »Erich Fromm |
| "Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me" »Alisa Wells |
| "None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license." »John Milton |
| "Next in importance to freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield |
| "As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you." »Paula Giddings |
| "The freedom of all is essential to my freedom." »Mikhail Bakunin |
| "By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action." »Albert Einstein |
| "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement." »Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan |
| "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." »Malcolm X |
| "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." »Lenin |
| "freedom is not something that anybody can be given freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." »Frederick Buechner |
| "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." »Aung San Suu Kyi |
| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." »Albert Camus |
| "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." »William Orville Douglas |
| "The way to final freedom is within thy self." »The Book of the Golden Precepts |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
