Freedom Journey Quotes

Death is the supreme celebration on the road to freedom.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in the old cabin quarter, with the old folks, and my brothers and sisters. But to this solemn resolution I came; I was free, and they should be free also; I would make a home for them in the North, and the Lord helping me, I would bring them all there.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

A lot of people, when they first hear about the Underground Railroad, think it really is a subway or a locomotive. When they find out it's not, they feel a little disappointed. So I thought, What if it was a literal underground train network traveling from state to state, with each state it goes through representing a different opportunity or danger?

I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.