#reed

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom. ↗

— Louis Hoffman

#freedom #freedom

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness. ↗

— Joseph C. Morecraft III

#confederacy #confederate-states-of-america #freedom #liberty #reformed-faith

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#feminism #freedom #patriarchy #third-wave-feminism #tragedy

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness. ↗

— Frank Tyger

#happiness-life #freedom

Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#freedom #juneteenth #liberty #slavery #freedom

An education is truly "fitted for freedom" only if it is such as to produce free citiens, citizen who are free not because of wealth or birth, they can call their minds their own. Male or female, they have looked nto themselves and developed the ability to separate habit and convention from what they can defend by arhument. Theyhave ownership of their own thought and speech, and this imparts to them a dignity that is far beyond the outer dignity of class and rank. - Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity. In e-Portfolios for Lifelong Learning, 2010. ↗

— by Darren Cambridge

#freedom #learning #education

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight. ↗

— Criss Jami

#development #faith #fear #free #freedom

Inside each of us there is a marvelous compass which greatly favors life, freedom and vitality. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life #vitality #freedom

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain. ↗

— Steven James

#cruelty #freedom #god #jesus #paradox

The Mythical Mr. Boo has several eagle feathers, or “Freedom Feathers,” as he likes to call them, that he staples to his chest in protest of any kind of bloodshed. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#the-mythical-mr-boo #freedom