As an individual, your own speech, your own choices matter, and can make a difference.

Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is a solemn and weighty responsibility and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government or politician. Each must decide for himself or herself alone what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man, to decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor. It is traitorous both against yourself and your country.
Let men label you as they may, if you alone of all the nation decide one way, and that way be the right way by your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country, hold up your head for you have nothing to be ashamed of.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Your freedom will be determined by whether you allow what I think and say about you to matter more than what anyone else thinks or says,

Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

Each person’s feelings are his or her own. Nobody makes

The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.

You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.

Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.

Above all else, I want you to think for yourself, to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it