Independence

Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you are the creator of your destiny.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.  In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose) but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence—a new relationship to the universe.  Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed.  This is where we have to begin.

Even if everyone else
Is not doing good,
I alone will.

Even if everyone else
is doing wrong,
I alone will not.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.