#freedom

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. ↗

— Joseph O'Connor

#freedom #injustice #love #freedom

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage? ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#racism #same-sex-marriage #freedom

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want. ↗

— Rob Bell

#heaven #hell #spirituality #freedom

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. ↗

— John Fowles

#god #freedom

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#thomas-jefferson #freedom

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ask #comes #freedom #goods #life

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american way #ancestors #arms #came #died

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#freedom #fulfilling #leads #passion #pursuing

I shall now call myself; I shall now call. In the forest of my heart, seeing myself, I shall love myself and love myself. I shall be my own quest, My absolute wealth. The journey of light supreme will commence In the heart of freedom. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#heart #light #love #quest #self-discovery

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas? ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#freedom