I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
Noam ChomskyTags: freedom justification challenge authority domination dismantle heirarchy human-freedom illegitimate-power
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: books freedom censorship book-burning
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David ThoreauTags: liberty freedom protest slave slavery slaves obedience disobedience
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: freedom society privilege principles president
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.
Rebecca SolnitTags: freedom jane-austen walking page-100
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 ReichTags: education freedom rights
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: freedom life-experience self-determination
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Nelson MandelaTags: freedom oppression crime
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert EinsteinTags: life existence arts sciences freedom religion purpose-of-life
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
James MadisonTags: freedom constitution bill-of-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment
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