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Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#oppression #tyranny #freedom

You can't take the sky from me. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#freedom #human-spirit #lyrics #music #possibilities

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #hypocrisy

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#scope-of-government #freedom

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#wilderness #freedom

It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - Sara ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#young-adult #freedom

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. ↗

— Jose Marti

#around #being #child #content #does

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#beauty

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#education #freedom #education

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#insecurity #secrets #spirit #weakness #freedom