“You are either free or not free”
More from Malcolm X on Freedom
“Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”
Ronald Reagan
5 quotes“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty”