Freedom Quotes

"I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death."

"Someday I shall be free. Liberty is a glorious thing."

"I have but one short life and feel impelled to devote all of it to the cause of freedom."

"The way to the North Star was the way to freedom."

"I would rather die a free woman than live as a slave."

"I ran from slavery and found myself running toward freedom."

"I am no longer bound by chains I cannot see."

"Every person deserves to taste freedom at least once."

"I learned that those who are willing to die are truly free."

"Freedom is not given; it must be taken with courage."

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself, and there I take my stand."

"I think the girl who is forced into marriage before she knows what she is about is as much a slave as the plantation negro."

"Why should women be denied the opportunity to develop all their faculties?"

"Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights."

"In my belief, a woman's independence is the highest good."

"I am not bound by the narrow conception of what a woman should be."

"Woman's time and talents belong to her and not to society."

"The foundation of all rights is the right to be oneself."

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."

"The rights which the Constitution protects are not reserved to a particular race."

"The Bill of Rights must be for everyone."

"A free people must have the freedom to think."

"Every generation must fight for freedom."

"It is not the color of the skin that makes a man a slave or a free man, it is the condition of his mind."

"You cannot be free if you pine for the good opinion of those who oppress you."

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

"I never liked to have a master."

"I would eat with whom I please."

"The slumbering embers of freedom are being kindled into a blaze."

"No man can put a chain about the soul of his fellow man."