America has never seen itself as a national state like all others but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston surely the most lovable the most human and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

But it required a disastrous internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

When we through our educational culture through the media through the entertainment culture give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions we are telling them in effect that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man and diversity will continue to increase with the progress refinement and differentiation of the human intellect.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Liberty freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words but human rights is very specific.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means and how it behaves in a time of danger war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Well the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis an antagonism which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact can simplify the history of human society the evolution of human society as a contest between power and freedom.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty the noblest cause of them all.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up to stay oppressed there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Institutions - government churches industries and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail on the whole to perform this function they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

True human goodness in all its purity and freedom can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind the very birthright of humanity.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

The State is the altar of political freedom and like the religious altar it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy human rights and freedom of expression.

I am truly free only when all human beings men and women are equally free. The freedom of other men far from negating or limiting my freedom is on the contrary its necessary premise and confirmation.

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human social economic political and religious relationship.