I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a desire for true freedom rather than just a change of circumstances that still restricts oneβs life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson conveys the idea that simply changing one set of limitations for a slightly different and larger set is not enough; instead, he yearns for complete liberation from all constraints. This reflects a deeper philosophical stance on the nature of freedom and the human spirit's quest for true emancipation from societal or self-imposed prisons.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming personal obstacles.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.
Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines.
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