Quotes About Freedom

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That's not something I take personally.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet.

I wanted to show North Korean people that they have hope, and they can be free someday, like myself.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

More than safeguarding someone's life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

All I want to do is get me a piece of land someplace where I can say, 'This is home,' and I got nobody bothering me.