Quotes About Freedom

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

What I do is good for Russian opposition. What I do is I speak freely on the things and items that were never discussed loudly with Russian public for years.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed.

An oppressed people will always rise.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.