#freed

We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#freedom

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#community #country #fight #free #freedom

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#civilization #classical #common #discussion #freedom

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#answer #diversity #freedom #heritage #inspired

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#declaim #feet #freedom #guns #like

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#give #i #tasted #up #which

You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my dreams you cannot touch. They are my will - the very essence of who I am. In them I laugh. In them I cry. In them I love. And in them…….I live. My dreams are untouchable and unceasing. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #eena #fantasies #freedom #hopes

The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#connection #culture #freedom #stress #beauty