Freedom

"To be truly free does not at all mean doing everything that pleases me, or doing what I want to do. . . . To be truly free means to use one's own freedom for what is a true good."           ...

"A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed." - Barbara Deming ...

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” - George Washington ...

“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.” - Robert Green Ingersoll ...

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." - Frederick Douglass ...

‘We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” - Martin Luther King Jr ...

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus ...

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

“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 ...

"By overthrowing me, you have only defeated the trunk of the tree of freedom; it will grow back because its roots are deep, numerous and vivacious." - Toussaint Louverture ...