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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Sep 29, 2025
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.
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.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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