#freedom

I can only be free when the other people around me are free. ↗

— Jordan Jones

#being-yourself #no-freedom #slavery-power #freedom

The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lightness, his spine unfurling, his shoulders settling. Like a lie, cracking and dropping from him. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#damen #freedom #freedom

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#free #freedom #prisoner #trapped #freedom

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival. ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#endors #king #freedom

You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-the-thought #idea #freedom

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #leadership #freedom

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom. ↗

— Tara Brach

#boundaries #freedom #freedom

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. ↗

— Colin Powell

#freedom

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace ↗

— Dean Koontz

#loneliness #peace #reflection #solitude #tranquility

Evil prevails when good people do nothing. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#freedom