Quotes About Freedom

How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence.

Even teaching them to write an essay turned out to be dangerous, since the idea of coming up with your own thesis and making an argument based on evidence doesn't exist in North Korea.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

wings greater than wings wings greater than walls

Passing meant people thought a person's identity was just a coat, not a shackle, as if the passer had the key to run free from oppression.

civilization able to produce a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Malik Ambar, a Periyar, a Muhammad Iqbal and a Mohandas Gandhi is a place open to radical experiments with self-definition. It

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Party like a bonobo!

Release your Inner Bonobo

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?

But there I was, in street clothes, walking into the California Institution for Women, knowing I'd be able to walk out. As I passed through the doors into the yard, I felt a rush of emotion. I was here with purpose, in possession of my dignity, my individuality, my own power—all the things that had been stripped from me the last time I stood in this yard.

When I left the parole building that day, it was the first time in two decades that I was no longer in the clutches of the U.S. justice system.

The loss of her freedom, of these years of her twenties, ended up being nothing next to the loss of her confidence in the choices she'd made.

There is a way you can make incredible music without following the so-called formula.

Life would be pretty boring if I didn't explore. It's about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can.

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.

All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.