Quotes About Freedom

Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.

The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.

Islam and freedom are not compatible.

I have something against Islam.

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.

I've been no-platformed from every university with a strong Islamic faith community.

We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

For me, sacrificing Israeli democracy is not something I can agree to.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

I spend thousands of dollars on lawyers every day just to make sure that I'm not gonna go to jail.