Quotes for All
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case. Emmeline Pankhurst
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. Emmeline Pankhurst
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. Emma Thompson
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt
Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom – that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom. Edwin Feulner
I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for… Criticism must think of itself … Read more
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass