#tho

A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree, Birds without trees can never feel free. ↗

— Leena Ahmad Almashat

#fly #freedom #freedom-of-choice #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." [The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)] ↗

— William O. Douglas

#first-amendment #freedom #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought #liberty

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #liberty

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself ↗

— George Orwell

#humanity #love #loyalty #freedom

أعددت قائمة سوداء بكل من تعامل مع هذا النظام خلال 18 يوماً من أعظم أيام جيلنا، بل ومن أعظم أيام العصر الحديث، تعاملوا مع النظام القديم واساؤا إلينا وإلى ثورتنا وقاموا بإهانتنا (...) هذه القائمة التي رحت أعدها لحظة بلحظة طوال الأيام الثمانية عشر التي أشعلنا فيها ثورتنا.. قمت بحذفها منذ دقائق، لإيماني العميق بأن الساعي إلى الحرية لا يقوم بتنصيب محاكم التفتيش للآخرين ولا يسعى إلى تصفية حسابات مع البعض سواء يعرفهم بشكل شخصي أو تضرر منهم في الإطار العام، وأن وصم البعض بآرائهم هو فعل ينتمي إلى نظام حسني مبارك بامتياز ويجب ألا نسمح لأفعال هذا النظام بالتسرب مجدداً لتلوث روحنا التي تطهرت بوهج ثورتنا العظيمة. ↗

— Ihab Omar

#freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought #jan #freedom

The Moonlight sonata is a strange piece of music. It's been called a Lamentation. You can feel that when you play it, can feel the sorrow and the endless repetitions. It's simple to play but maddeningly difficult to play well. The arpeggios allow great freedom of expression. Too much freedom in untutored, unskilled hands. They say Beethovan wrote it for a seventeen-year-old countess, the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi. He may have loved her. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#the-moonlight-sonata #freedom

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#freedom-of-religion #religion #thomas-jefferson #freedom

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it. ↗

— Scott Howard Phillips

#freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-the-press #freedom-of-thought

Khi bạn không làm được điều bạn muốn làm, có lẽ bạn cũng cảm thấy tự do bị tước đoạt. ↗

— Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

#freedom

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#freedom-of-thought #will #willpower #freedom