Independence

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
Diane von Furstenberg

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte

If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
Bernie Sanders

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
Marsha Blackburn


The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh

Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.
Kim Jong-un

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas J. Watson

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mother, Me , Independent
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

Injustice in the end produces independence.
Voltaire