Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva Quotes

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

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.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Every despotism has a specially keen and hostile instinct for whatever keeps up human dignity and independence.

For what avail the plough or sail, / Or Land or life, if freedom fail?

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.