Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
— Svetlana Alexievich
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
— Suze Orman
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
— Suzanne Collins
Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose.
— Susan L. Taylor
Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.
— Suriya
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
— Sun Yat-sen
The right to religious freedom is not a gift of the state or a gift of a group.
— Suharto
Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
— Sue Kelly
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
— Stokely Carmichael
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
— Sting
Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.
— Steven Pinker
I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.
— Steven Erikson
I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.
— Steven Biko
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
— Steve Wozniak
I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'
— Steve Sabol
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
— Steve Forbes
We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
— Suzanne Fields
Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.
— Suzan DelBene
Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The individual must not be allowed to be overly free, but the country must be entirely free. When the country can exercise freedom, China will have become a mighty and prosperous nation.
Going braless is one's freedom.
— Sulli
Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental of human rights because religious freedom comes from the dignity of the human being as God's creature.
That's one of the nice things about being a sportsman is that once you cross that white line, it is a freedom, you are away from everything in life really. You are playing cricket and that's an escape from everything. That's as clear as you get really.
— Stuart Broad
No man can given anybody his freedom.
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.
— Steven Hatfill
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
— Steve Winwood
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
— Steve Buyer
The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the 'war on terror' is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy.
— Stephen Kinzer
Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.
There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.
I hate to confess that I would love to have all of my children in Washington - and at the same time, they've been all over the place, and my heart of hearts, I believe that freedom is wonderful.
— Susan Shreve
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.
— Susan Burton
When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
— Sukarno
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
— Sue Monk Kidd
I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.
— Stone Cold Steve Austin
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
— Stockwell Day
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.
— Steven Soderbergh
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
— Steven Brust
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
Obviously, you cannot do full repeal of Obamacare without a 60-vote bill in the Senate, but you can surely gut the law and give people true healthcare freedom with 51 votes in the Senate.
— Steve Scalise
The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.
— Sterling K. Brown
