“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.” MenWayMayIndividualCommunityFreedomCitiesGroupsOppressionVillageSmall GroupsLarge CitiesSmall Villages Author:Morris Raphael Cohen
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” WantHumansIndividualProcessChangeFreedomCommonCitiesLibertyPowerRightsDependsExerciseResourcesTransformationHuman RightsAccessArguingInevitableCollectivesUrbanMaking ChangesNeglectedRemakesIndividual LibertyCollectivityUrbanization Book:Social Justice and the City Source: Social Justice and the City
“He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.” NatureFreedomCitiesClearCaughtAutumnVillageFlocksDwellersAutumn Days Author:Anton Chekhov
“While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!” PeopleIfsHappinessNatureFreedomCitiesStruggleAuthorityFlowWaterfallsUnhappy People Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...” StatesFreedomCitiesRingsFreedom LibertyPeace And JusticePeace JusticeI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechFreedom And PeaceTenements Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” MenChildrenStatesGodHandsHappensAbleLastsSpiritualBlackFreedomWhiteCitiesCatholicJewSpeedRingsVillageThank GodAlmightyWhite ManProtestantsFreedom LibertyPeace And JusticeI Had A DreamPeace JusticeGentilesI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechFreedom And PeaceMarch On WashingtonJoining Hands Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” PeopleThinkingFreedomSinCitiesProducersTouristsFreedom Of ThoughtAmsterdamFault In Our Stars Book:The Fault in Our Stars Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."” FirstsSpiritualPurposeFreedomCitiesMovementElementsNotesWestLoyaltyGoldenMotiveDisputesSan FranciscoClosingSymphonyPioneersDefianceTrumpetsAccompanySpiritual Strength Author:Meredith Willson