Freedom Quotes

"I am for the immediate, unconditional and universal abolition of slavery."

"Every nation has a right to determine its own destiny."

"I had escaped from a den of hungry lions."

"I came into this world a slave; I am leaving it a man."

"A man cannot be truly free while his neighbor is enslaved."

"I do not wear the brand of slavery on my forehead."

"The very heart of slavery is the denial of the personhood of the enslaved."

"If you wish to know the value of freedom, speak to a slave."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so other people be also free."

"The very first requirement in a democracy is an honest ballot and a fair count."

"The world was thinking wrong about women. Women were not made to be slaves."

"The slave went free; stood a moment in the sun; then moved back again into slavery."

"I believe in Democracy. I do not believe in the Democracy which lynch Negroes in Texas."

"The Veil separates the Negro from full participation in American life."

"The struggle for freedom never ends; it must be renewed by each generation."

"True freedom means the freedom to develop one's full potential."

"I declare women are persons."

"I declare women must have the right to vote."

"I declare women must be free to choose their own path."

"My whole life has been about breaking the chains that bind women."

"I declare women must be free to marry or not marry as they choose."

"The day women are truly equal is the day humanity is truly free."

"The true course is to recognize that woman's voice must be heard."

"The day women have true equality is the day we can all breathe free."

"We do not want to live anywhere as exiles or vagrants."

"I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul."

"The slave is not free; neither is the master free so long as there is slavery."

"I have been in the pursuit of freedom for over fifty years. That should incline all those who love liberty to be patient with one who continues in that unfinished work until her life's end."

"Freedom is not given, it is taken."

"A man's body is his own. If he is diseased, it is his own affair. But a woman is not her own."