Quotes About Independence

Don't take nothing from nobody and don't give anyone reason to take advantage of you in the first place.

If you cannot travel honorably, and without begging, I should advise you to stay at home.

Another saying, "The egg didn't like its shell," was used for people who tried to distance themselves from where they came from, or who disrespected their parents.

It occurred to me that I could be less mindful of man, and I seemed to catch a glimpse of freedom.

Obviously all the girls, whether they talked about it or not, were on the lookout for any reprieve from the hassle of not having a boyfriend: the way it exposed you to censure and nosiness.

That was the best thing about college: it was so easy to leave. You could be in the place where you lived, having an argument that you had basically started, and then you could just say, "See you later," and go somewhere else.

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

No nation will ever respect us as long as we beg for that which we can do for ourselves. There has never been a leader of our people who went all-out to set up an economic plan for our people. I use the saying of Jesus, "All before me were thieves and robbers.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.

She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.

Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.

Like Virginia Woolf said, every woman writer needs five hundred pounds a year and a room of one's own.

What would being a twenty-one-year-old in 2019 look like? Kirby couldn't begin to imagine.)

she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies.

but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone.

she's not wrong. Men are like that. But we don't have to put up with it. Jessie, do you hear me? We do not have to put up with it.

makes of herself.

backbone, Eddie informed Allegra that she would not have

One trait all the women in his life have shared: They were "born on the Fourth of July." Independent.

Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even five, I would snap my fingers at all men, and say, 'No, I make my life as I choose, and shall cultivate knowledge and books, and indulge in beautiful ideas of honor and exalted sentiments, and perhaps one day succumb to a noble passion.

I was, being human, born alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; I live by squeezing from a stone The little nourishment I get.

Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird, The eagle of the rock.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.