#freed

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#about #america #convictions #enjoy #feeling

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#freedom #art

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#continuous #economic #evolving #fact #final

All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things weren't getting me any love. ↗

— Ariel Gore

#freedom

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. ↗

— Mary Robinson

#free #freedom #man #may #potential

It's so important to find a daily practice that takes you away from "day to day" to remind you that it's all "ok ↗

— Ian Tucker

#happiness #peace #reiki #freedom

Pues nada ha sido nunca para un hombre o una sociedad humana más insoportable que la libertad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#political-philosophy #freedom

The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among the English that if liberty, equality, and justice were ever to come to their shores, it certainly was not Napoleon who would bring them there. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#liberty #napoleon #age

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#democracy #education #freedom #fulfilled #gifts

Once I was free in the shackles of sin: Free to be tempted, just bound to give in; Free to be captive to any desire; Free to eternally burn in hell’s fire. ‘Til Someone bought me and called me His slave: Bound by commands I am free to obey; Captive by beauty I’m free to adore-- Sentenced to sit at His feet evermore. ↗

— John MacArthur

#christ #freedom #god #hell #sin