Walter Brueggemann Quotes

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

Playing Sally McKenna was a wonderful, freeing thing because we all in life have so many responsibilities to ourselves, to other people, that we rarely get to explore a very selfish side of ourselves in doing what we want, when we want, how we want, without answering to or being responsible for anyone else.

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.