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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal
hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man. 
 - Thomas Jefferson

A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to
the belief that they can make people...
better. And I do not hold to that. So no
more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.
 - Malcom Reynolds

I judge people by their own principles, not
by my own.
 - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's better to die on your feet than to live
on your knees.
 - Emiliano Zapata

Age don't matter like
Race don't matter like
Place don't matter like what's inside
 - The War Inside, Switchfoot

And in searching for acceptance
They have given it away
Only the children of our children
Know the price they had to pay
  - Mary Black, Turning Away

For to be free is not merely to cast off
one's chains, but to live in a way that
respects and enhances the freedom of others.
 - Nelson Mandela

Responsibility is the price of freedom. 
 - Elbert Hubbard

I am free because I know that I alone am
morally responsible for everything I do.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them;
if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am 
morally responsible for everything I do.
 - Robert A. Heinlein

May we think of freedom, not as the right
to do as we please, but as the opportunity
to do what is right.
 - Peter Marshall

Freedom is the sure possession of those
alone who have the courage to defend it. 
 - Pericles

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out
in pieces to suit political convenience. I
don't believe you can stand for freedom for
one group of people and deny it to others.
 - Coretta Scott King

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces
because freedom is all or nothing. 
 - Tertullian

You can only protect your liberties in this
world by protecting the other man's freedom. 
 - Clarence Darrow

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom
of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our
responsibility upon the shoulders of God or
nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is
our responsibility. 
 - Arnold J. Toynbee

You can only be free if I am free. 
 - Clarence Darrow

Freedom is never easily won, but once
established, freedom lasts, spreads and
chokes out tyranny. 
 - Trent Lott

The night is so long when
Everything's wrong
If you give me your hand
I will help you hold on 
 - Skillet, Never Surrender

Every tyrant who has lived has believe in
freedom for himself.
 - Elbert Hubbard

Your true traveler finds boredom rather
agreeable than painful. It is the symbol
of his liberty, his excessive freedom. He
accepts his boredom, when it comes, not
merely philosophically, but almost with
pleasure.
 - Aldous Huxley

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
 - Hannah Arendt

Only the strongest will survive
Lead me to heaven, when we die
I am the shadow on the wall
I'll be the one to save us all
 - Breaking Benjamin, Without You

Persistence, resistance,
one man can make a difference
The battle's inside of me
the fight's begun but not yet won
And I won't become, one more casualty
  - Marty Casey & Lovehammers, Casualty

And if strength is born from heartbreak
Many mountains I could move
And if walls could speak I'd pray
That they would tell me what to do
  - Rise Against, Help is On the Way

Bet you've never seen the things that
I've seen
Bottled up inside this time
Cause I'm taking back my life.
 - Adelita's Way, 'Invicible'

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
 - Metallica, 'Nothing Else Matters'

Right here, right now
Stand my ground and never back down
I know what I believe inside
  - Skillet, 'Awake and Alive'

Hell is still overburdened
I must stand and wait in line
I may never know for certain
When will be my time
How was I considered evil?
Pleasures taken in this life?
Someone granted me reprieval
Decades spent in strife
 - Disturbed, 'Overburdened'

So pick up and follow me we're the only ones
To fight this thing until we've won
We drive on and don't look back
It doesn't mean we can't learn from our past
All the things that we mighta done wrong
We could've been doing this all along
Everybody with the first raised high
Let me hear your battle cry tonight
Stand beside, or step aside
We are the frontline.
 - Pillar, 'Frontline'

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
 - Switchfoot, 'Dare You to Move'

Count your blessings and prepare
  to change your point of view
All those days that you spend
  waiting won't come back to you
Take off the glasses that have
  treated your world black and grey
It doesn't get easy, don't you know
 - Delain, 'April Rain'

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious
lives, but I will not rejoice in the death
of one, not even an enemy.
  - Jessica Dovey