Freedom Quote by Joy Hakim

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

— Nathan Hale

“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“that spirit of liberty didn’t extend, in the minds of the Founders, to the slaves who worked their fields, made their beds, and nursed…

— Barack Obama

“In 1968 King said the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were penned by men who owned slaves, thus, a “nation that got started…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“America was the land of liberty--and liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of others.”

— Milo Hastings

“American Slavery, American Freedom,”

— Andrew Levy

“She was particularly curious about the Viginians, wondering if, as slaveholders, they had the necessary commitment to the cause of freedom. "I have," she…

— David McCullough

“2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta,…

— Winston Churchill

“But the freedom won by the men of 1776 was incomplete without the freedom for which the men of 1833 were striving.”

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a…

— John Quincy Adams

“A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.”

— Robyn Carr

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson