Freedom

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FREEDOM: Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (David Graeber, U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961)

FREEDOM: Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (Unknown source)

FREEDOM: The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Lord Acton, English historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM: A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. governor, ambassador, 1900-1965Perception: Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957Royalty: The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FREEDOM: The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910Prayer -Religion: If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. (Steve Allen, U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000)

FREEDOM: The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Lord Dalberg-Acton, English politician and historian, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

FREEDOM: Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others. (Unknown Source)

FREEDOM: Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (David Graeber, U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961)

FREEDOM: The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Sir John Dalberg-Acton, English historian and politician, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM: missing quote (Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. politician and diplomat, 1900-1965)

FREEDOM: The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910)

FREEDOM: In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. (Kathleen Norris, U.S. novelist and columnist, 1880-1966)

FREEDOM: The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910)

FREEDOM: As I walked 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, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013)

FREEDOM: Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

FREEDOM: You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963)

FREEDOM: The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of securitenjoyed by minorities. (Lord Dalberg-Acton, English politician and historian, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM: Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny. (Unknown source)

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. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

FREEDOM: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. (Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980)

FREEDOM: My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

FREEDOM: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

FREEDOM: When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1918-2008)