Quotes About Freedom

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequently keeps me on the optimistic side of life.

I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

I always want my options to be open.

Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

I've been doing mostly independent films, and things like 'Goal' give me a chance to have more options.

If you want to be a powerful woman, you need money. It gives you options and freedom so you don't have to think about money all the time.

My goal is to just have options.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the limited options I had.

I love TV and film and will happily work there if it's good. But I want the ability to choose between things, to have options.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that their children are cared for and safe.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'