Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

Self Emancipation

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

I like music where someone is trying to get their power back.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.