“You are not my enemy. You are my freedom. You are my white knight. You are my challenger, my push to greatness, my savior. I was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see.”— Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn, Heather Mitchell, Mellie Grant, Bellamy Young, imdb.com
“How can you grow as an artist, if you don’t have the freedom to fail now and then?”— Jill Soloway, Russell Corwin, Ben Foster, imdb.com
“I felt so free for a week. But then, all of a sudden, within days I went from ‘Yay, I'm independent’ to ‘Holy fuck, I'm gonna die alone.’”— Jill Soloway, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“Nowhere to go, nothing to do… lost and found in the moment... just practice this. Maybe here is where we find wholeheartedness and our true freedom.”— Joan Halifax, amazon.com
“Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from e…”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com
“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest…”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com
“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone . . . Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained…”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society.”— Emma Goldman, edchange.org
“If you want to live the fullness of your life - if you want to be free - you must understand, first, why you are not free, what keeps you from being free.”— Elle Luna, amazon.com
“All freedom-loving nations, not the United States alone, are facing a stern challenge from the Communist tyranny. In the circumstances, alarm is justified. The man who isn't alarmed simply doesn't understand the situation — or he is crazy. But alarm is one thing, and hysteria is another. Hysteria im…”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a mi…”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in our country’s efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens. Recent events in the United States and abroad have made us realize that it is more important today than ever before to insure that all Americans enjoy these r…”— Harry S Truman, americanrhetoric.com
“This is how peoples fight when they want to win their freedom; they throw stones at airplanes and overturn tanks!”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“Your Honor, It is over now. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn’t ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was s…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, livefromapt213.tumblr.com