“The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.”
-Epicurus
(more…)Freedom
1052 – “As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects. Our course should always be in conformity with strict justice and law, international and local.”
-Ulysses S Grant, 18ht President of the United States of America
(more…)1025 – “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
-Nelson Mandela
(more…)1002 – “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
-Nelson Mandela
(more…)1000 – “The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
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(more…)989 – Martin Luther King, Jr on the United States
“The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. … But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding — something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, … the cry is always the same — ‘We want to be free.'”
-Martin Luther King, Jr
(more…)896 – Jim Morrison on Freedom
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
-Jim Morrison
(more…)892 – “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.”
–Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States of America
(more…)888 – Roger Ebert on the 1950s from Pleasantville Review
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom. Pleasantville [(1998)] is the kind of parable that encourages us to re-evaluate the good old days and take a fresh look at the new world we so easily dismiss as decadent. Yes, we have more problems. But also more solutions, more opportunities and more freedom. I grew up in the ’50s. … My house had a picket fence, and dinner was always on the table at a quarter to six, but things were wrong that I didn’t even know the words for.”
–Roger Ebert [See Source Notes for full context] (more…)
887 -“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
–Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America (more…)
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