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Quotes About Freedom

a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.
~ Assata Shakur
After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
~ Assata Shakur
Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying it. Bachir had a lovely voice, one that was already that of a man. He knew many poems by heart. He lovingly recited Victor Hugo, with warmth Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre, and poems written by young people going into battle; he then moved on to the poets of liberty - Rimbaud again, Eluard, and Desnos.
~ Assia Djebar
Let go of everything Holding back our dreams.
~ Athena Athena
You can go your own way
~ Athena Athena
Grab your parachute because this woman will fly you to the peaks of ecstasy and drive you crazy enough to make you jump off.
~ Athena Starwoman
Every African soul is either carrying a bundle or in it. What is wrong with this world that it wants to waste you like that ... my children ... my Africa!
~ Athol Fugard
You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...
~ Atiq Rahimi
renoncer à trois choses : l'amour de soi, la loi du père et la morale de la mère.
~ Atiq Rahimi
Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.
~ Auberon Herbert
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
~ Auberon Herbert
That I could be a wolf, if I wanted to.
~ Aubrey Rose
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
~ Audie Murphy
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
~ Audre Lorde
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
~ August Strindberg
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
~ August Strindberg
When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
~ August Wilson
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
~ Augustine of Hippo
Internet, jogos de video, computadores, são úteis, mas tâm destruído algo inviolável: a infância. Onde está o prazer do silência? Onde está a arte da observação? Onde está a inocência? Angustia-me que o sistema esteja a gerar crianças insatisfeitas e ansiosas. Fortes candidatas a serem doentes psiquiátricos e não seres humanos felizes e livres.
~ Augusto Cury
El objetivo fundamental de los sueños no es el éxito, sino librarnos del fantasma del conformismo.
~ Augusto Cury
El rechazo de una idea negativa podrá hacernos esclavos de ella. Rechace a una persona, y ella dormirá con usted, arruinándole el sueño. Perdonarla resulta emocionalmente más barato.
~ Augusto Cury
The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.
~ Augusto Roa Bastos
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi