Freedom Quotes

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Baruch Spinoza

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Mother Jones

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Taslima Nasrin

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

George Pataki

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emile M. Cioran

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Jim Morrison

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X