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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"The path to freedom is neither quick nor easy, but with courage and determination it shall be found."Nelson Mandela
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Nelson Mandela
"You can get far when you are not encumbered by the past."Nelson Mandela
"Exile teaches you what home truly means."Jorge Edwards
"To live authentically, one must write one's own story."Jorge Edwards
"The imagination is the last free country."Jorge Edwards
"To write is to defend freedom."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"We are the authors of our own stories, and every day we have the chance to rewrite our narratives."Gioconda Belli
"The freedom to be ourselves is the most fundamental human right."Gioconda Belli
"Real freedom is the freedom to say no."Kathy Acker
"Identity is a cage."Kathy Acker
"Censorship is the tool of those who fear ideas."Kathy Acker
"Freedom isn't given. It's taken."Kathy Acker
"To be free is to be willing to die."Kathy Acker
"Freedom is the burden we carry unconsciously."Kathy Acker
"The moment there is in any nation the slightest attempt at absolute conformity, that nation is dying."Mahatma Gandhi
"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sell his birthright for a mess of integrationist pottage."Martin Luther King Jr.
"When we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children will be able to join hands."Martin Luther King Jr.
"Struggle is the way to true emancipation."Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am my own road"Rubén Darío
"Freedom is every person's birthright"Rubén Darío
"Freedom's price is eternal vigilance against the erosion of our own principles."Jorge Edwards
"The marketplace of ideas thrives only when all voices are heard."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The path to freedom is paved with the courage of the ordinary."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The most subversive thing a woman can do is speak her truth."Gioconda Belli
"Freedom requires us to continually choose ourselves."Gioconda Belli
"A woman's voice, once found, cannot be silenced forever."Gioconda Belli
"A woman's body is her first territory of freedom."Gioconda Belli
"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had lost its liberty."Abraham Lincoln
"I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others."Abraham Lincoln