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"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."
"I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come."
"The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it."
"Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply."
"The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live."
"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."
"If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny."
"I should not dare to call my soul my own."
"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
"There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing."
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
"How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free."
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
"Liberation is not deliverance."
"Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet."
"When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law."
"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
