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Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980The Flies (1943), Act 3
- God
I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert Humphrey1911–1978Address to the National Student Council (1965)
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters.
Philip Roth1933–2018The Paris Review, “The Art of Fiction No. 84”, interview by Hermione Lee (1984)
- Writing
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?
JAJoan of Arc1412–1431First public examination (21 February 1431)
For freedom’s battle, once begun,
Bequeath’d by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Lord Byron1788–1824The Giaour (1813), Line 123.
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Second Inaugural Address (1873)
- Race
- Slavery
People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.
Barack Obamaborn 1961A New Beginning (June 2009)
- Religion
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are — we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
Emma Watsonborn 1990UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign (2014)
If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.
Simone Weil1909–1943Human Personality (1943), p. 69
- Truth & Lies
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
Peter Thielborn 1967In an article published by Cato Unbound (April 13, 2009)
- Democracy
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
- Liberty
- Religion
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (11 September 1858)
- Liberty
The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Thinking
I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the liberty of womankind.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech at the 38th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Baltimore (15 February 1906)
- Liberty
- Women
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442-43 (1950)
- Thinking