Quotes About Freedom

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

My grandfather died under house arrest.

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred.

Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be one of the seminal directors of the 20th century. I'm never going to be that. So I might as well do whatever I want.

My grandparents and my parents came over from Cuba with nothing to their name just for a chance of freedom and opportunity.

My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'

The right to love is granted to anyone.

I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

You sort of take your freedom for granted sometimes.

Many people take daylight for granted, but if you are forbidden to see it, you will appreciate it.

Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose.

It's just an amazing feeling to walk barefooted in some nice grass.

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of history. And you know what? It's something we should be proud of. Because we ended it.

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything I don't have to. I want to travel light.