“We in America pride ourselves on freedom of the press, but every day I see, and so do you, this kind of dishonesty and distortion not only in this area but in reporting—about guys like me, for instance, which is of minor importance except to me; but also in reporting world news. How can a free peopl…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“I think having personal freedom and not being politically correct and not playing the game is a good message in our fucking pussified situation that we’re in now.”— Dan Bilzerian, squaremile.com
“One thing I don’t understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that’s terrible and boring.”— Charli XCX, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
“I find it ironic that the colors red, white, and blue stand for freedom until they are flashing behind you.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“The emancipation proclamation was heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the sky; men were made free, and material things became our better servants.”— Benjamin Harrison, top10-best.com
“The colored people did not intrude themselves upon us. They were brought here in chains and held in the communities where they are now chiefly found by a cruel slave code. Happily for both races, they are now free.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored? This generation should…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Our right to life doesn’t always include our right to risk it. If that thought doesn’t feel strange to you, think about it again. It should.”— Francis Sanzaro, nytimes.com
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”— Chrissy Stockton, shopcatalog.com
“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com