It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
Quotations
Freedom
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
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"
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is from within.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
