Freedom Quotes

"The public liberty is lost in the loss of private liberty."

"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberty of the world is put in peril."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist."

"Hereditary bondmen! know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow."

"The fundamental objection to slavery never was that it made the slave miserable, but that it made him a slave."

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong."

"The moment they believed themselves to be free, the chains fell off."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"I have as much right to think freely as any other person."

"To the poor man every day is a holiday; he is his own master."

"The testimony of the enslaved is the most powerful voice for freedom."

"I have crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom."

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."

"I wanted to taste the life for myself when I got my liberty, for I had been the slave of slaves."

"I wanted to ride in the front of the omnibus because I am a woman, and have a right to a good seat."

"I do not believe that God made me to be a slave, and I will fight until every chain is broken."

"I have learned that the greatest freedom comes from speaking truth to power."

"Any individual who owns land and a home of his own is more independent and freer in every way than a man who is not the possessor of these fundamentals."

"We should be as free as the air, and in every legal and constitutional manner aid each other in securing the highest positions of trust and usefulness."

"I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery."

"The worker must work for the glory of his handicraft or ha becomes a slave."

"The slave went free; stood a moment in the sun; then moved back again into slavery."

"I believe in liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls."

"The aspiration of the world has always been towards the development of individuality."

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man."

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."

"I declare that the true republic is such wherein there is no man who has authority to compel another to be his slave."

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."