Howard Thurman Quote

Liberty can be taken away. But freedom! Freedom is the process by which, standing in my place, where I am, I can so act in that place as to influence, order, alter, or change the future—that time is not frozen, that life is not so fixed that it cannot respond to my own will, my own inner processes.... Freedom is the sense of option, the sense of alternatives which only I can affect.

America in Search of a Soul (1976)