Quotes About Freedom

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.