Jonathan Mayhew Quotes

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Get out of people's way and let them be who they are. If they make a mistake, fine, that's on them.

I wish everyone could just be free.

We can't eradicate hate, and we can't wish away evil. But we can continue to stand together on the side of the freedoms we all cherish.

My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Education is freedom.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

The motive power of democracy is love.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.