#Freedom

"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement."

"The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline."

"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."

"If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower."

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

"Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."

"Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something."

"To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in."

"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."

"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."

"Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative."

"I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun."

"Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/"

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

"Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose."

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."