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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Refusing to bargain for freedom after 21 years in prison, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1985)
Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Speech at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary celebrations, KwaDukuza, South Africa (25 April 1998)
- Leadership
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
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
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)
- Fear
I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for. But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Statement from the dock at the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria (20 April 1964)
- Courage
- Race
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign!
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Inaugural address, Pretoria (10 May 1994)
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things⁠—opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.
Herbert Marcuse1898–1979One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 71
- Art
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Liberty
- Truth & Lies
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Liberty
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Politics
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 23In context
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