Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Freedom is never given; it is won.
-A. Philip Randolph
