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

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Be independent and don’t try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Russia is a sovereign state, we will always protect our national interests by pursuing an independent policy, and we value the same qualities in partners who have demonstrated reliability and responsibility in the course of trade, investment, and other cooperation for many years.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

Belize, with the help of God and the support of its people, will stand upright and will do its duty and help bring peace, stability and prosperity to our region and to wider circles of our planet Earth.

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

The strategy of domination has now failed, the United States is in its weakest position, and the power of independent nations is experiencing historic growth.

A few decades ago, you could hear independent voices on public broadcasting, including Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, and Noam Chomsky. No more.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

The great thing about an independent film is that you’re too busy working, and you’re too busy hoping to God to get it done.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has the ability to say, ‘No, I’m sorry, that has to be approved by me.’

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council can sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.