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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"All history consists of successive eruptions of freedom."
Aldo Leopold
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"The battle for the soul of America is being fought in the forests and canyons."
David Brower
D
"There is a fifth freedom—freedom from fear of the future."
David Brower
D
"Wilderness preserved is democracy demonstrated."
David Brower
D
"The wilderness is not a place; it is a state of being."
David Brower
D
"The loss of wilderness is the loss of possibility."
David Brower
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"You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself."
Wangari Maathai
W
"Even when we don't have power, we all have choices."
Wangari Maathai
W
"Sometimes, but only sometimes, our circumstances permit us to choose."
Wangari Maathai
W
"Education and empowerment are the basis of freedom."
Wangari Maathai
W
"Freedom is not an external goal to be achieved, it's an internal state of mind."
Wangari Maathai
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"Freedom is not given; it must be earned through struggle."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Dignity is the birthright of every human."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
"We're not fighting for a return to nature—we're fighting for a habitable planet."
Bill McKibben
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"I am of no race nor of any color - the only race is humanity."
Aimé Césaire
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"Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet everywhere Man is murdered."
Aimé Césaire
A
"Freedom is not given, it is taken."
Aimé Césaire
A
"Freedom is the birthright of all."
Aimé Césaire
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"The battle for the preservation of the wilderness is a battle for the soul of America."
David Brower
D
"The freedom to destroy is not the same as the freedom to flourish."
David Brower
J
"The younger generation has a right to demand climate action."
James Hansen
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The oppressed have the right to resist oppression with all their might."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
"I am not a slave to slavery that dehumanized my ancestors."
Frantz Fanon
"Disalienation will be the more rapid."
Frantz Fanon
"Collective auto-determination is best."
Frantz Fanon
"Freedom is the only thing that matters."
Frantz Fanon
"We demand the right to determine our own future."
Frantz Fanon
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"You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself."
Wangari Maathai
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"I have come to understand that liberation is not just freedom from something; it is freedom to do something."
Wangari Maathai