“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com
“If you’re in a toxic relationship right now, just know that there is a better life possible for you. You are worthy of the happiness that life has to offer. You are deserving of healthy love and self-love. You are worthy of infinite abundance and success. You will be okay by yourself. In fact, who k…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being free means ‘being free for the other,’ because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink in the wild air.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu
“Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and lawgivers are ever at their wits' end devising. The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education. Why not add compulsory recreation? Our forefathers forged chains of duty and habit, which bind us notwithst…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“[T]he efficiency of the individual is increased more by a far-reaching granting of freedom than by compulsion from above, and it must further prevent the process of natural selection, which is to promote the most efficient, the most able, and the most industrious, from being cut short.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“[T]he demonstration bore the title ‘March for Jobs and Freedom.’ We realized even then that true freedom and racial equality cannot be achieved within the context of a stagnant economy, unable to provide blacks with permanent, good-paying jobs.”— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com
“[W]e must remember that we cannot hope to achieve democracy and equality in such a way that would destroy the very kind of society which we hope to build. If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we m…”— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com
“When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.”— Donald L. Hicks, amazon.com
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”— Lewis B. Smedes, amazon.com
“Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.”— Shannon Wiersbitzky, amazon.com
“I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do; but it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.”— Alice Paul, fembio.org
“There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.”— Jackie Robinson, jackierobinson.com
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, amazon.com
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, amazon.com