#independence

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#freedom

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#american history #declaration #history #independence #part

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. ↗

— David Wooster

#country #dying #gain #her #hope

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#courage #end #happiness #independence #liberty

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#independence #mean #want #way #you

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#economic #economic independence #education #even #independence

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#amenable #any #body #concerns #conduct