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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"I want for all women what I want for myself—freedom."Emmeline Pankhurst
"I had rather one day as a free woman than a lifetime of servitude."Emmeline Pankhurst
"The day I was made a prisoner I ceased to be a slave."Emmeline Pankhurst
"Give me liberty or give me death."Emmeline Pankhurst
"Women want to live their own lives and not be subjected to laws that diminish their humanity."Emmeline Pankhurst
"To ask women to give up their aspirations is to ask them to give up their humanity."Emmeline Pankhurst
"Every woman has the right to her own body, her own labour, and her own future."Emmeline Pankhurst
"A woman who has to be kept is not a woman; she is a luxury."Emmeline Pankhurst
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."Malcolm X
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Malcolm X
"The price of freedom is death."Malcolm X
"Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence."Malcolm X
"I believe that today's Constitution is a living document intended to provide our basic rights."Thurgood Marshall
"The thing that is important is that we cannot retreat from the Constitution."Thurgood Marshall
"The Constitution means something to me. It means freedom."Thurgood Marshall
"The Constitution doesn't belong to lawyers. It belongs to the people."Thurgood Marshall
"What good is freedom if you can't use it?"Thurgood Marshall
"The Constitution is not just for rich people. It's for everybody."Thurgood Marshall
"The Constitution means nothing if it doesn't protect all people equally."Thurgood Marshall
"The Constitution is our guarantee of freedom. We must protect it."Thurgood Marshall
"Enslave the laborer and you enslave the employer."Frederick Douglass
"The slave-driver's lash is only one of the means of slavery."Frederick Douglass
"The man who would be free must strike the first blow."Frederick Douglass
"To suppress thought is to suppress freedom."Frederick Douglass
"The heart that has once known the value of freedom can never be satisfied without it."Frederick Douglass
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so other people be also free."Rosa Parks
"We must use our freedom responsibly and in service of others."Rosa Parks
"Freedom is not given, it is taken."W.E.B. Du Bois
"I am by birth free and by temperament a radical."W.E.B. Du Bois
"The American Negro must participate in determining his own destiny."W.E.B. Du Bois