When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
-Joel Salatin
"Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front"
Quotations
Freedom
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-Albert Camus
