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
"The battle for the soul of America is being fought in the forests and canyons."David Brower
"There is a fifth freedom—freedom from fear of the future."David Brower
"Wilderness preserved is democracy demonstrated."David Brower
"The wilderness is not a place; it is a state of being."David Brower
"The loss of wilderness is the loss of possibility."David Brower
"You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself."Wangari Maathai
"Even when we don't have power, we all have choices."Wangari Maathai
"Sometimes, but only sometimes, our circumstances permit us to choose."Wangari Maathai
"Education and empowerment are the basis of freedom."Wangari Maathai
"Freedom is not an external goal to be achieved, it's an internal state of mind."Wangari Maathai
"Freedom is not given; it must be earned through struggle."Leopold Sédar Senghor
"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
"I am of no race nor of any color - the only race is humanity."Aimé Césaire
"Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet everywhere Man is murdered."Aimé Césaire
"Freedom is not given, it is taken."Aimé Césaire
"Freedom is the birthright of all."Aimé Césaire
"The battle for the preservation of the wilderness is a battle for the soul of America."David Brower
"The freedom to destroy is not the same as the freedom to flourish."David Brower
"The younger generation has a right to demand climate action."James Hansen
"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."Leopold Sédar Senghor
"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
"You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself."Wangari Maathai
"I have come to understand that liberation is not just freedom from something; it is freedom to do something."Wangari Maathai