And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

- Robin Morgan

You'll be free or die!

- Harriet Tubman

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

- Robin Morgan

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

- Tara Brach

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

- Simone de Beauvoir

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

- Golda Meir

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

- William Ellery Channing

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

- C. A. Bartol

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Alice Walker

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

- Tara Brach

The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

- Tara Brach

Freedom lies in bold action.

- Robert Frost

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

- Bob Dylan



Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

- Jean-Paul Sartre



The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

- John Locke



Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

- Tara Brach



The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner.

- Paulo Freire



Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course -- because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

- Alice Miller



Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

- A. Philip Randolph



Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

- Anne Sullivan



Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

- James F. Cooper



The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

- Betty Ford



The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.

- bell hooks



Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- Louis D. Brandeis



No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

- Susan B. Anthony



No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.

- Abraham Lincoln



I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

- H. L. Mencken



Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

- Rabindranath Tagore



If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti



Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

- Heinrich Heine



Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there's a freedom in realizing this, a new freedom to move or stay, new necessities and possibilities of choice.

- Betty Friedan



Without community, there is no liberation.

- Audre Lorde



Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

- Mortimer Adler



The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

- William Ellery Channing



Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz of Persia



I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

- Bill Gates



The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

- Eleanor Holmes Norton



Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

- Leo Tolstoy



Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.

- Robert S. McElvaine



Freedom is never given; it is won.

- A. Philip Randolph



Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances - it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life.

- Richard Rudd



Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

- Paulo Freire