“All over this world people are standing up for freedom.”

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

My sincerity is my credentials.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I’ve been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I’m free enough to execute new things vocally on stage and give my best performance possible.