Quotes About Freedom

Deceived on all sides, overwhelmed with injustice, I will fly from an abyss where vice is triumphant, and seek out some small secluded nook on earth, where on may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man.

Trahi de toutes parts, accablé d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre où triomphent les vices ; Et chercher sur la terre un endroit écarté Où d'être homme d'honneur, on ait la liberté.

I am strongly moved to fly into some desert to avoid all approach of human creatures

Toute âme est libre à nommer son vainqueur.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.

I've never been wild." "You want to be, don't you? That's why you're calling me.?" "Yeah, I guess…maybe…" "Yes or no. There's no one else here to hear you and I ain't judging." "Yes. Yes, I'd like to be wild.

The history of our country should not be written in the blood of slaves. It is an abomination.

If I choose to live a modest life, I'm a free man. If I'm forced to live a modest life, I'm a slave.

Oppression is unjustly distributed.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply went her own way, uncaring.

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" in the sky.

We loved our opposites so that we could free ourselves from our selves.

There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

There was a time you when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember... You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell destroying killing and setting fire to the buildings of men, to theatres, national assemblies, to museums, libraries, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, old and new, from which they free the slaves.

The refusal to become (or to remain) heterosexual always meant to refuse to become a man or a woman, consciously or not.

L'hétérosexualité n'est pas "naturelle", pas plus qu'elle n'est la seule sexualité, la sexualité universelle.