Amiri Baraka Quotes

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

Liberty is its own reward.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

You are either free or not free

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Freedom is relative.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

I am pro-freedom.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.