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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John, 8:32In context
- Truth & Lies
Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliament, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon.
Terence McKenna1946–2000“True Hallucinations” (1993)
- Government
Man’s right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Response to FDA complaint (1954)
- Knowledge
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg1871–1919The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter Six, “The Problem of Dictatorship”
Self-regulation is the basis of freedom, and dependence the origin of inequality.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4, p. 97
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners…
William Wilberforce1759–1833Journal entry (28 October 1787), in The Life of William Wilberforce (1838) by his sons, vol. 1
- God
- Slavery
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Race
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address at the National Archives dedicating a shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights (15 December 1952)
- Government
- Liberty
Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot have torture without slavery.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963“Slavery and Torture”, The Daily Dish (23 February 2007)
- Slavery
Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), “Marriage and Love”
- Love
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
George Orwell1903–1950“As I Please,” Tribune (28 April 1944)
- Government
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826A Summary View of the Rights of British America (July 1774)
- Slavery
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Felix Adler1851–1933Founding Address (1876)
- Thinking
Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right — not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Cuban Missile Crisis speech
- War & Peace
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)