Freedom Quotes
The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.
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"We have the right and the responsibility to protect our waters for all beings."Winona LaDuke
"Every seed saved is an act of resistance and freedom."Vandana Shiva
"We need to decolonize our minds from the tyranny of consumerism."Vandana Shiva
"The corporate takeover of nature is the takeover of our freedom."Vandana Shiva
"To save the earth, we must first save ourselves from the tyranny of consumerism."Vandana Shiva
"Freedom requires environmental sustainability."James Hansen
"Freedom from pollution is a basic right."James Hansen
"The right to exist without fear is a prerequisite for everything else."Naomi Klein
"The future is not predetermined—it is something we create through our choices."Naomi Klein
"Every choice we make is a vote for the kind of world we want."Naomi Klein
"The future is being written right now by the choices we make."Naomi Klein
"We are in a moment of profound choice about what kind of species we want to be."Bill McKibben
"If we don't define ourselves for ourselves, we will be crushed into other people's fantasies of us and eaten alive."Audre Lorde
"Visibility is a trap; it always exposes you to the implements of control of any society."Audre Lorde
"Advocating for the human rights of others is not a distraction from our own liberation."Audre Lorde
"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."Arundhati Roy
"We are all products of our history, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."Arundhati Roy
"Freedom is not something you're given, it's something you have to fight for continuously."Arundhati Roy
"Freedom for seeds is freedom for farmers, and freedom for farmers is freedom for humanity."Vandana Shiva
"The farmer's right to save and replant seeds is a fundamental human right."Vandana Shiva
"Every choice we make has consequences that ripple forward in time."James Hansen
"Freedom to live on a stable planet is what we're fighting for."James Hansen
"We need not ask for permission to save our world; we need only the will."Bill McKibben
"We are not facing a climate crisis; we are facing a crisis of choices."Naomi Klein
"The right to exist is more fundamental than the right to profit."Naomi Klein
"The right to a livable planet is a human right."Naomi Klein
"We will not accept a future that has been decided for us."Greta Thunberg
"There is no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."Arundhati Roy
"We are not here to represent the world. We are here to represent ourselves."Arundhati Roy
"The freedom we seek is the freedom to be ourselves."Arundhati Roy