“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.”
Quotes about freedom
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“I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.”
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.”
“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.”
“There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.”
“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”
“The only certain freedom's in departure.”
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”
“The best road to progress is freedom's road.”
“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.”
“Freedom can occur only through education.”
“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
“All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”