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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

He who is brave is free.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.