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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Letter accepting the Republican nomination to run for President (12 July 1880)
- Education
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Night and Day (1978), Act I
- Journalism
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973“America’s Medieval Women,” Harper’s Magazine (August 1938)
- Women
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Dedication
- Virtue
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Colette1873–1954Freedom (1908)
Human life for us is sacred, but we say if any life is to be sacrificed it shall be ours; we won’t do it ourselves, but we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.
Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928Freedom or Death (1913)
- Life & Death
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), “Minorities Versus Majorities”
- Thinking
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Fahrenheit 451, Coda (1979)
- Reading
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
- Government
- Liberty
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)
- Slavery
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (30 March 1961)
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lecture on Liberty: An Address in Baltimore, Maryland (18 April 1864)
- Liberty
I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
- Courage
You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Alexander H. Stephens (1860)
- Slavery