#free

Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine. ↗

— Sara Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #under-feet-like-ours #you-get-yours-and-i-ll-get-mine

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#king-lear #freedom

If man will not recognize the inequalities around him and voluntarily, through the gospel plan, come to the aid of his brother, he will find that through ‘a democratic process’ he will be forced to come to the aid of his brother. The government will take from the ‘haves’ and give to the ‘have nots.’ Both have lost their freedom. Those who ‘have,’ lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who ‘have not,’ lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got ‘something for nothing,’ and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift. ↗

— Howard W. Hunter

#choice #freedom #government #freedom

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it? ↗

— Michel Templet

#freedom-of-speech #politics #freedom

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness. ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#grace #freedom

The world I held so closely, she played me like a game, I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#game #jamie-weise #liberation #world #freedom

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#freedom

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68 ↗

— Thomas Merton

#liberty #freedom

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#freedom

I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love #slavery #forgiveness