freedom on Equality

God of freedom, whether we like to admit it or not, we do not treat everybody with equality. We silently judge others based on appearance, social status, and even race. Please give us the courage to m...

When Frederick Douglass asked his famous question, “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” he didn’t simply ask a question about the United States of America . He asked a question about Amer...

The entire human race is one … all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Freedom always faces a fundamental moral challenge. Freedom requires order and therefore restraint, yet the only restraint that does not contradict freedom is self-restraint, which is the very thing t...

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom comes when we know God is enough, when he is our everything.

For a start, freedom always faces a fundamental historical challenge. Although glorious, free societies are few, far between and fleeting. In the past, the high view of human dignity and independence ...

We have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now.

Because of the finished work of Christ, our future contains zero judgment and 100% joyful intimacy with you; zero wrath and 100% Christlikeness; zero brokenness and 100% beautiful, life-giving, heart-...

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Our freedom is our supreme dignity; that makes us children of the Most high; we can enjoy it only by living in a partly chancy world.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Freedom requires virtues it does not produce and may even help undermine.

The glory of freedom should never blind anyone to its immoderate nature and therefore to the stern requirements that surround it. For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy o...

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to ...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Being free means “being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.

Go in the love and peace of Christ, claiming your freedom to live victoriously in Christ’s love, and in harmony with our brothers and sisters who have been reconciled by Christ’s grace. Amen.

And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger...

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

The world says: "You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or dusty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity its...

I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.