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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.”
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Ich Bin Ein Berliner (1963)
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968“Extremism, Left and Right,” pt. 3, (1964)
- America
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Life & Death
O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
O’er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?
Francis Scott Key1779–1843The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)In context
- America
- Patriotism
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Either/Or Part I, Swenson Translation p. 19
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Either/Or Part I, Swenson Translation p. 19
What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.
Jimmy Kimmelborn 1967Post-hiatus monologue (23 September 2025)
- America
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
- Race
- Slavery
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968I Have a Dream (1963)
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Birth of a New Nation (1957)
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- America
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, 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.1929–1968“I Have a Dream”, March on Washington (28 August 1963)
- Race
Only the free mind knows what Love is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Speech at the University of California, Berkley, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio (4 January 1969)
- Love