Quotes About Freedom

I decided to leave here. Stern resolution. Grasp the world. Then I found that the Village Virus had me, absolute.

She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night.

Go. Run with it. Make trouble.

A forced marriage is no marriage.

Era, por tanto, libre como una alondra -es decir, todo lo libre que se puede ser con un ingreso diario de once chelines y medio-.

Nuestra mente debe ser tan libre como la misma naturaleza- Sherlock Holmes, Estudio en escarlata

I'll listen, till my fancy hears The clang of swords' the crash of spears! These grates, these walls, shall vanish then For the fair field of fighting men, And my free spirit burst away, As if it soared from battle fray.

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

William Blake:   He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!

Of course you did ; the law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. Yes, Epps, when the law says that it's a liar, and the truth is not in it. Is every thing right because the law allows it ? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

I don't want to survive, I want to live.

If you laugh, the ego cannot control you.

just how it had been painfully answered. By not being married, I was now free to focus on healing me. That was my gift in all of this. I was determined to accept it.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

I also knew that, though I had never cared much what others thought of me and what I did, I would care even less in the future. And I realized that for the women's movement to succeed, many women had to be similarly free, not just from the terror of breaking taboos, but from the garden-variety fear of social disapproval as well.

The truth is that to displease men, to disobey them, is still deadly for women. But the truth also is that only when we stop obeying men do we truly begin to live.

When [women] understand that the penalties are the same whether we disobey a little or disobey completely, but that the rewards come only when we disobey completely, then we are ready to be free.

The instant enough of us detach from patriarchy and stop facilitating it, that is the instant tyranny will cease.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.