Quotes About Freedom

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

I really don't like being in jail.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

I was in chemical jail.

I should still be in jail.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.

There's nothing good about jail. Having your freedom taken off you... It's nothing to be proud of and it's not any fun no matter how you passed the time.

I never want to go to jail. Never, ever.

Jail ain't the place to be. Don't glorify jail.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

Anyone can be James Dean for a day.

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.