Freedom Quotes

You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.I'll take you there, you'd said.And I could say that I agreed.

~ Lucy Christopher

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A man is nothing without dreams. A man is called idiot while he dreams. Whatever he does, he'll be judged and thrown away from the circle of clowns. And yet he needs acceptance and security from sick society, which is discriminatory far too often. But a man is blinded by other people opinions. He wants to fly and they say, “You moron, you can't do that, it's forbidden, it's stupid.” And a man gives up on his dreams.

~ Asper Blurry

Don't you miss it? I say. Being free.He laughs.

~ Lauren Destefano

You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.

~ Nikki Rowe

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreamsbeyond the memories of a murdered generation,cartographed in captivity by bare survivorsmakes sacristans of us all.The old ones go our bail, we oblate preachers of our tribes.Be careful, they say, don't hock the beads of kinship agonies; the moire-effect of unfamiliar hymnsupon our own, a change in pitch or shrillness of the voicetransforms the ways of song to words of poetry or proseand makes distinctionsno one recognizes.Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscanson the edge of useless law; we prayto the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistlein ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chainof incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.

~ Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.

~ Frederick Douglass

I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire.

~ Anthony Ryan

If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.

~ Anthony Ryan

beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.

~ Scott Stabile

I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.

~ Jodi Meadows

Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.

~ Gillian Duce

In order for evil to go down, the good had to fight, suffer and die. We won, but only after suffering a lot of pain and I’m sure many have had second thoughts. Despite everything, we had new hope after the battle. We cleared the agitation. We were free. The same goes for this war. The good on both sides needs to survive and the bad needs to wither away.

~ Melita Tessy

We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live with the agony and the continued existence of racism, however difficult it is to live amidst the constant hurt, the constant insult and the constant disrespect, I can still sing we shall overcome. We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. No lie can live forever. We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. Truth crushed to earth will rise again. We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.   Yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right.  You shall reap what you sow. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children all over this nation - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, We are Free At Last.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The most important individuals on earth have went underground, either for political, social or personal reasons. Ostracized by a society that ignores their most basic rights, they work alone to save the world. Invisible to the five senses, they work from the most unbelievable places, places where they're hardly found, or when found never recognized. I change country at an average of three to six times a year, and travel to places as unpredictable as Lithuania, Julian Assange is in the Equator's Embassy in England, David Icke lives in a tiny apartment in a Island that few have heard about, and then there are many others that you've never seen or met. Without us, there would be no meaning for hope. We may one day be found and recognized, maybe even get statues and other works of art in our name and that will likely happen after we're gone. So we can't say we're doing it for the money or recognition. We're risking our lives for those that show no appreciation or support, for those that rather spend 10 dollars in a meal than two in a book, for those that to a great extent have ridicule us for a longer time than the one in which they've shown respect.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

~ Aaron Lauritsen

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

~ Aaron Lauritsen

True friends don't come with conditions.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Without struggle, success has no value.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way

~ Aaron Lauritsen

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Devotion to material possession, control or power; is the sole reason for hate. Devotion to the heart ... the sole reason for love.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

Youth, elastic and bright, disdains to be compelled. When conquered, from its very chains it forges implements for freedom; it alights from one baffled flight, only again to soar on untired wing towards some other aim. Previous defeat is made the bridge to pass the tide to another shore; and, if that break down, its fragments become stepping stones. It will feed upon despair, and call it a medicine which is to renovate its dying hopes.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

~ Nikki Rowe