I'd rather be a free man in ...

I\'d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
 Jimmy Cliff

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.
 Jimmy Cliff
Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.
 Jimmy Cliff
Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.
 Jimmy Cliff
I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.
 Jimmy Cliff
I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.
 Jimmy Cliff