Justice & Rights Sayings

232 sayings found from 232 authors

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell 1945
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

— Toni Morrison 1993
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde 1890
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The one thing that can't be taken from us is our freedom to choose how we will react to whatever we are given.

— Emily Dickinson Unknown
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Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost 1945
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The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give freedom to a caged bird.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1916
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It is praiseworthy to be a peacemaker, but it is not enough to be a peacemaker. One must also be a justice-maker.

— Chinua Achebe late 20th century
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

— Wole Soyinka Unknown
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

— Hunter S. Thompson 1979
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We are all prisoners of our own minds.

— Kurt Vonnegut Unknown
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The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world.

— Jonathan Swift 1706
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Freedom is a strong seed planted in a great need.

— Langston Hughes 1943
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It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of the way in which people are treated.

— James Baldwin 1968
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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves.

— Federico Garcia Lorca 1933
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Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling.

— Machiavelli 1532
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
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Justice is nothing else than the charity of the wise.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1702-1703
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It is a fact that I have always placed my personal freedom before everything else.

— Ludwig van Beethoven 1815
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I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

— Johann Sebastian Bach c. 1750
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To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

— Hypatia c. 400 CE
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