For a city or a people to be truly free they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choice and to live their own lives. (John F. Kennedy)

For a city or a people to be truly free they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choice and to live their own lives.

John F. Kennedy

Related topics

choice city free lives live people police political pressure right

Related quotes

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. View quote
Theodor Herzl
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. View quote
Vito Fossella
There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important. View quote
Christopher A. Sims
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. View quote
Eric Hoffer