Quotes About Freedom

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.