Gerry Spence Quotes on Freedom

15 quotes

  1. To freely bloom- that is my definition of success.

  2. The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

  3. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

  4. As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

  5. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

  6. To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

  7. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

  8. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

  9. I say, embrace fear as a friend. It is nature's gift to us. It is the best weapon for liberty. ... It permits us to escape or to fight with power beyond our ability.

  10. There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

  11. To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

  12. Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

  13. No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. ... Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person!

  14. The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

  15. We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.

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