Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
-Thomas Sowell
"Knowledge And Decisions"
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita 17:4-7"
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
