Chief Joseph Quotes

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

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.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

I was not born to be forced.

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

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.