Quotes About Freedom

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

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Religion is a glorified system of control, or an oppressed system of liberation.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

The moonlight will guide me to the world of freedom.

Ca te plaît de ne pas te connaître vraiment ? (Amu) — Oui, parce que ne pas savoir… C'est avoir la liberté d'essayer tout ce dont on a envie. (Kûkai)

I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.

We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.

freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die The in between is mine I am mine

Can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what you want because I'm me.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die The in between is mine I am mine... There's no need to hide We're safe tonight

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." ( America's Medieval Women , Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom.

y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?

How can it be justified And how can it be right For God to give freedom - Sweet And Beautiful Freedom - To give it to a stream, a fish, A brute and a bird And deny it to a human being!

Nace el ave, y con las galas que le dan belleza suma, apenas es flor de pluma, o ramillete con alas, cuando las etéreas salas corta con velocidad, negándose a la piedad del nido que dejan en calma; ¿y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time

I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.

Y nos arrancamos del Municipal como chicas reacias a la cultura de salón. Igual fue bonito conocer estas elegancias, dije tomando a la Gladucha del brazo. Pero nosotras somos más folclóricas, Pedrín. Y rockeras, agregué con una mirada rebelde. Y cumbiancheras, acentuó mi reina con su risa de cascabel que me sigue sonando en el ayer, tan fresca y libertaria como una cascada de pájaros.