Quotes About Freedom

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Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, disabled women, lesbians, old women - as well as white, economically privileged, heterosexual women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement.

Free must be like a whippoorwill that could fly here and there and settle where it pleased... free could mean to get paid for your work like white folks... free was like the free black boy who... gave her water... if you were free, you wouldn't be whipped." (58)

How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." —TRINA PAULUS

It is in a total state of involvement that one finds liberation from time.

It had ceased to bother me that Michele didn't believe a word that I said. It gave me the liberty to lie whenever I chose.

Love is about allowing. Love is about letting people be free. You leave the cage door open and if you're really loved, the bird flies back to be with you. That's the only kind of love worth having.

Life is too short to be so circumspect.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

John Quincy Adams' dictum that wherever the standard of liberty was unfurled in the world, "there will be America's heart … but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance.

Regulations," he would say, "are all very well for drill but in the hour of danger they are no more use.… You have to learn to think." To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance.

Henry Lee's path-breaking resolution in Congress in June, 1776, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent

Inspiration, on the other hand, is a call to creative action. We act because we want to, not because we have to.

We walk the paths we choose.

The worst slavery is that which we voluntarily impose upon ourselves; and no chains are so cumbrous and galling as those which we are pleased to wear by way of grace and ornament.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination

Liberty is potential. To create a free being is to place before it the problem of its destiny.

If there be an axiom evident to all, it is this, that liberty is a first necessity of existence.

Liberty acting without motive is no more liberty, it is chance, and chance is another name for ignorance.