--- title: "6 Letting Freedom Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Letting Freedom quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Letting Freedom sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg" --- > [As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world-didn-t-give-me-the-world-can/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg) > [Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-prather/letting-go-is-freedom-when-you-find-yourself-in-a-useless-battle-you/) [Hugh Prather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-prather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c08/hugh-prather-3404_battle_letting-go-is-freedom-when-you-find-your_345935.png) > [Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-marcel/being-and-having-in-our-society-teaches-us-how-to-take-possession-of/) [Gabriel Marcel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-marcel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/gabriel-marcel-23278_apprenticeship_being-and-having-in-our-society-teaches_1516119.png) > [“The tricky thing about living in a society that allows you freedom is that everyone else has it too. Some people can’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-c-cobble/the-tricky-thing-about-living-in-a-society-that-allows-you-freedom-is/) [A.C. Cobble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-c-cobble/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/a-c-cobble-155155_freedom_the-tricky-thing-about-living-in-a-socie_1775625.jpg) > [“There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/there-are-powers-far-beyond-us-plans-far-beyond-what-we-could-have/) [C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fe/c-joybell-c-471_belief_there-are-powers-far-beyond-us-plans-far_1786450.jpg) > [All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanif-kureishi/all-the-same-my-depression-and-self-hatred-my-desire-to-mutilate/) [Hanif Kureishi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanif-kureishi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85c/hanif-kureishi-3233_bed_all-the-same-my-depression-and-self-hatr_3221361.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/letting-freedom/#itemlist", "name": "Letting Freedom Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. 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If I had done that, if I had been just one more dictator sitting atop a golden throne, then it would have been for nothing. I didn’t free you from your oppressive rulers. I freed you from yourselves. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. Unattributed lecture series notes 37 A.W. City University”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "A.C. 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