Charles Lenox Remond Quotes

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

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

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

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

Self Emancipation

… the best way to aid the human being to emancipate himself is to educate him

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

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

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

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

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

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.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

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

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

Liberation is not deliverance.