Jimmy Cliff Quotes

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

The most powerful single force in the world today…man’s eternal desire to be free and independent.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.