Inspirational Quotes About Freedom and Independence
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1) George Washington
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
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2) Kahlil Gibran
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
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3) Herbert Hoover
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
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4) Albert Einstein
“For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
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5) Nelson Mandela
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
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6) Epictetus
“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
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7) Robert Frost
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
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8) Maya Angelou
“Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”
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9) Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
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10) William Faulkner
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
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11) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
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12) Aung San Suu Kyi
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
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13) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
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14) Buddha
“No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.”
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15) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind
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16) Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
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17) Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
“What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free, and own no superior?”
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18) Alice Walker
“No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
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19) Amelia Earhart
“As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly."
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20) attributed to John Lennon
“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”
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21) Barack Obama
"Our responsibility as citizens is to address the inequalities and injustices that linger, and we must secure our birthright freedoms for all people."
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22) John F. Kennedy
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
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23) Bob Dylan
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
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