Toussaint Louverture Quote – Tree of Freedom

“By overthrowing me, you have only defeated the trunk of the tree of freedom; it will grow back because its roots are deep, numerous and vivacious.” – Toussaint Louverture
Read more“By overthrowing me, you have only defeated the trunk of the tree of freedom; it will grow back because its roots are deep, numerous and vivacious.” – Toussaint Louverture
Read more“The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” – Osho
Read more“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” – Albert Camus
Read more“What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
Read more“A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in…and how many want out.” – Tony Blair
Read more“Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, freedom is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and one another.” – Pope Francis
Read more“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.” – Frederick Douglass
Read more“To be truly free does not at all mean doing everything that pleases me, or doing what I want to do. . . . To be truly free means to use one’s own freedom for what is a true good.” – Pope Francis
Read more“A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.” – Barbara Deming
Read more‘We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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