Human Freedom Quotes
81 quotes by 67 authors
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of…
— James A. Baldwin
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The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old…
— Suzanne La Follette
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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,…
— Vaclav Havel
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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...…
— Frank I. Cobb
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
— Andrew Sullivan
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The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view…
— John Shelby Spong
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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable…
— Immanuel Kant
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The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted…
— Andrey Illarionov
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights…
— Ronald Reagan
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In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order…
— Ronald Reagan
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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
— Emma Thompson
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There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the…
— George W. Bush
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Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
— Harry S. Truman
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I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
— Ronald Reagan
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Who Wrote These Human Freedom Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 81 Human Freedom Quotes, led by these top contributors: