Cornel West Quotes

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?

Only free men can negotiate: prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

We have the right to be idiots.

We shall liberate our country.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.