Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

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

Liberation is not deliverance.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

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

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

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!

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Despite the great vision, it is only drop by drop that we squeeze the slave out of ourselves.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

The thrall in person may be free in soul

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!