Liberation Quotes

"This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person."

- William O. Douglas

"Your Honours will find in the old book, concerning the office of a justice of peace, precedents of general warrants to search suspected houses. But in more modern books you will find only special warrants to search such and such houses specially named, in which the complainant has before sworn he suspects his goods are concealed; and you will find it adjudged that special warrants only are legal. In the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition being general is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer."

- James Otis

"Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ [of assistance], if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege."

- James Otis

"In riding a horse, we borrow freedom."

- Helen Thompson

"A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open."

- Gerald Raftery

"When riding a horse, we borrow freedom."

- Helen Thomson

"Thought is free."

- William Shakespeare

"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."

- Doris Lessing

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."

- Carl Thomas Rowan

"A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants."

- Doris Lessing

"Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind, which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."

- James Madison

"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

- Toni Morrison

"Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt."

- Betty Friedan

"Alone at last."

- Flynn Rider

"Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering."

- Elaine Heffner

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."

- Aristotle

"Freedom comes in individual packages."

- Shirley Boone

"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

- Charles Evans Hughes

""The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.""

- Rose Kennedy

"The object of government is not to change men from rational beings into puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled. … The true aim of government is liberty."

- Baruch Spinoza

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it."

- Woodrow Wilson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty."

- George Washington, attributed

"Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness… Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Hummingbird's flight is as free as our thoughts should be"

"Through their flight, see the essence of free-spirited exploration"

"There’s real freedom in a Saturday where nothing is urgent and nobody expects you to show up anywhere dressed properly"

- Unknown

"Dobby is a Free Elf"

""The only limits that exist are the ones you create. Break free this Saturday.""