#free

It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die. But die it must.... ↗

— Sujourner Truth

#slavery #freedom

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#free #sets #sometimes #thing #ties

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... [a man] may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#oppression #freedom

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#became #even #fanatic #free #free market

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#days #free #free press #government #i

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#catholic #free #free will #gave #give

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before. ↗

— John Entwistle

#before #doing #ever #form #free

What we want, of course, what lies in the cupboard marked 'important,' is connection, love: If the deepest source of human hunger had a name, that would be it; if the boxes of constraint in which so many women live could be smashed to bits, that would be the tool, the sledgehammer that shatters emptiness and uncovers the hope buried beneath it. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#love #women #freedom

Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head; And a shout ascends on high, For men's souls are tired of the Turks, And their wicked ways and works, That have made of Ak-Hissar A city of the plague; And the loud, exultant cry That echoes wide and far Is: "Long live Scanderbeg! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#freedom #liberation #sacrifice #freedom

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#freedom #government #leaders #people #rule