Quotes About Freedom

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Why did they kill it? Man can't stand to let something beautiful and pure, a thing on wings, pass over him. He hates everything that soars, and everything that sings. It seemed to me this swan is the very image of my dream, and my dream is dead.

A long leash is still a leash.

Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of 'wrong' ideas

Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

I'd rather see the others." "What others?" "The ones who make it. The ones living in freedom now." "If any do." "They do." "Some say they do. It's like dying, though, and going to heaven. Nobody ever comes back to tell you about it.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.

I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.

There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.

He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children who chased each other and shouted and didn't understand yet that they were slaves.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Down on Earth," she said carefully, "there are no people left to draw lines on maps and say which sides of those lines are the right sides. There is no government left. No human government, anyway.

Let go of me." It smoothed its tentacles again. "Be grateful, Joe. I'm not going to let go of you.

The Human Contradiction held them. Intelligence at the service of hierarchical behavior. They were not free.

I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover. He had understood that once.

Learn everything you can from these people, and bring what you learn back to the rest of us. Even the stupid, ugly things that they say and do might be important. Their lying promises might hide a truth. If we collect what we see and hear, if we stay united, work together, support one another, then the time will come when we can win our freedom or kill them or both!

to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery.

Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble. One

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care?

The stars are free." She shrugs. "I'd rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

too. A woman should have something of her own." Doro