“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remain…”— Erich Fromm, goodreads.com
“Being awake is love. That’s what it is. It’s certainly not hate. It’s certainly not fear. But what it is, it’s a sense of being not separate from all the suffering and all of the emptiness, all of the compassion, all of the wisdom, all of the liberation, and all of the enslavement, to understand we’…”— Joan Halifax, imdb.com
“’The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”— Adam Gopnik, goodreads.com
“I need steadfast. I need solid. I need someone who puts my needs before his own. Someone bold enough and patient enough to pursue a wild mess like me when I’m ready to run away. I need to change what I’m looking for.”— Ashley Lipscomb, thoughtcatalog.com
“I learned I’m prone to run. I always choose men who ultimately I know will set me free. Past my cries for companionship lie something much deeper- a need to be independent.”— Ashley Lipscomb, thoughtcatalog.com
“True freedom from fear lies in caring less what others think, and the first step in ceasing to care what people think of you is ceasing to care what their reactions are.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“Every member of this body — every Republican and every Democrat — wants to see less gun violence," Every member of this body wants a world in which people feel safe regardless of the color of their skin. And that’s not how people are feeling these days.”— Paul Ryan, youtube.com
“The reality is this is a peaceful human rights movement led by incredibly courageous black people. I think we are demanding justice and freedom for our people.”— Opal Tometi, cleveland19.com
“When you know, we been hurt, been down before, nigga When my pride was low, lookin' at the world like, 'where do we go, nigga?' And we hate Popo, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga I'm at the preacher's door My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow but we gon' be alright”— Kendrick Lamar, play.spotify.com
“It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us,' We’re going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished.”— Beyoncé Knowles, beyonce.com
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”— Nelson Mandela, amazon.com
“Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive”— Bill Cunningham, nytimes.com
“If only words could express the constant battle between loyalty and freedom, perhaps my heart would stop yearning for more and learn to live in this cage of contentment.”— Alison Malee, amazon.com