Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Freedom Quotes

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

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Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

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Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

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Don't let the man bring you down.

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Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

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