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In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.
William Blake1757–1827London (1794)In context
- Thinking
Aim at creating free men and women, free intellectually, free morally, unprejudiced in all respects, and above all things, unselfish.
Helena Blavatsky1831–1891The Key to Theosophy (1889)
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Simón Bolívar1783–1830Statement of 1829, as quoted in The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans (1963) by John Gerassi
- America
- Liberty
When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945Discipleship (1937), Preface, tr. Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss (2001)
- Christianity
Civil courage, in fact, can grow only out of the free responsibility of free men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945“After Ten Years” (Christmas 1942), in Letters and Papers from Prison
- Courage
- Responsibility
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
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.
Joseph Brodsky1940–1996Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986), p. 28
- Time
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Jane to Mr. Rochester (Ch. 23)In context
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Women
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Youth
I believe that to have interfered as I have done⁠—as I have always freely admitted I have done⁠—in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
John Brown1800–1859John Brown’s Last Speech (1859)
- Justice
- Slavery
Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,⁠—I submit; so let it be done!
John Brown1800–1859John Brown’s Last Speech (1859)
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
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it⁠—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994Tales of ordinary madness (1967-83)
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
- Liberty