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


Amiri Baraka

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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA A man is either free or he is not.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
WALTER CRONKITE Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
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B.R. AMBEDKAR Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is alway...
HANNAH ARENDT A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; if he does not love solitude, he will not love fre...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you ...
MALCOLM X There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scie...
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thin...
ADAM CLARKE There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scienti...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER ...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be concei...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striv...
E. M. CIORAN The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we s...
THICH NHAT HANH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is ...
AUBERON HERBERT Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
YODA Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. ...
MAX STIRNER I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduc...
RASHID JOHNSON If a man is born, he should be born either a king or a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE War - hard apprenticeship of freedom
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind.
ADITYA AJMERA When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do...
MALCOLM X There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an "Idea ...
A.E. SAMAAN Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
GARET GARRETT The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semes...
DANNY GLOVER The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he ...
CONFUCIUS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
VERA NAZARIAN If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative pr...
BARON D'HOLBACH You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He m...
MARY ROBINSON Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow weal...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeel...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself...
PYTHAGORAS Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library,...
RASHID JOHNSON There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in off...
G.K. CHESTERTON I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is...
HOWARD NEMEROV Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUS I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value w...
OSCAR WILDE There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He who cannot be considered a sensible man or being, is therefore with no doubt a fool.
KGOSIETSILE MARTIN TIMOTHY If this is vise I want no virtue.

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I know what happiness is possible to me ...
AYN RAND Don't look for love. It is either there or not there.
TAPAN GHOSH This is not a plea bargain case, ... There is not a deal going to be made here. He'll either be foun...
MICHAEL SHERMAN A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be f...
WILLIAM PENN No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
HORACE MANN He who cannot resist temptation is not a man
HORACE MANN A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you ca...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the w...
SAMUEL ADAMS If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be ...
NELSON MANDELA The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God...
DAVID O. MCKAY Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new ...
CHRISTINA WESTOVER You are here to be free. There is no other way to be free than to embrace freedom within yourself.
TONY SAMARA Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are...
AMIRI BARAKA My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence ...
AMIRI BARAKA God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
AMIRI BARAKA Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forc...
AMIRI BARAKA This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississ...
AMIRI BARAKA There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see fr...
AMIRI BARAKA If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it impli...
AMIRI BARAKA America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are...
AMIRI BARAKA My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people ...
AMIRI BARAKA I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get i...
AMIRI BARAKA When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But w...
AMIRI BARAKA The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for '...
AMIRI BARAKA The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving y...
AMIRI BARAKA I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they'...
AMIRI BARAKA To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the musi...
AMIRI BARAKA I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
AMIRI BARAKA My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's na...
AMIRI BARAKA Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
AMIRI BARAKA The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to...
AMIRI BARAKA I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy U...
AMIRI BARAKA A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their mon...
AMIRI BARAKA Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. ...
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AMIRI BARAKA My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence ...
AMIRI BARAKA God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
AMIRI BARAKA Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forc...
AMIRI BARAKA This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississ...
AMIRI BARAKA There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see fr...
AMIRI BARAKA If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it impli...
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AMIRI BARAKA I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get i...
AMIRI BARAKA When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But w...
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AMIRI BARAKA I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
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AMIRI BARAKA Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
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