Freedom Quote by Toni Morrison Download Open image “We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.” — Toni Morrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Indolence Leisure Passion Recklessness Violence
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“freedom was simply being able to entertain the prospect of changing your circumstances.” — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What is freedom when you're too beholden to act spontaneously” — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image