Mutual Freedom Quotes

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other mans freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.