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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"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."Toni Morrison
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."Toni Morrison
"If you are free, then you are responsible for all of your choices."Toni Morrison
"To be truly free, you must acknowledge your own complicity in your oppression."Toni Morrison
"I have the nerve to walk my own way."Zora Neale Hurston
"Freedom is worth any sacrifice."Zora Neale Hurston
"The chains of oppression are strongest when we forget we can break them."Richard Wright
"Freedom is not given; it is taken by those brave enough to demand it."Richard Wright
"The mind is the last fortress of freedom."Richard Wright
"To accept one's fate is to abandon one's humanity."Richard Wright
"To be isolated is to be vulnerable, but to speak is to be free."Richard Wright
"A man's real wealth is measured by his freedom."Richard Wright
"The struggle for freedom is not merely political; it is deeply personal and psychological."Ralph Ellison
"To be truly free, we must first understand the chains that bind us."Ralph Ellison
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so that other people would be also free."Maya Angelou
"Be nobody's darling; be an outcast. Take the side of the exiles and the thieves."Alice Walker
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."Toni Morrison
"The only thing that cannot be taken from us is our capacity to choose."Toni Morrison
"The only real freedom is the freedom to be fully oneself."Toni Morrison
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."Toni Morrison
"I do not need my freedom when I am dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."Langston Hughes
"I am not my circumstances; I am my choices."Langston Hughes
"I discovered that prison was right here in the streets, in the minds of people."Richard Wright
"I am condemned to freedom whether I wish it or not."Richard Wright
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."James Baldwin
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."James Baldwin
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction."James Baldwin
"The attempt to be free is the first thing that a man attempts."James Baldwin
"One cannot be freed by the same energy that enslaves."James Baldwin
"I am the subject of my own life, not the object of another's."Zora Neale Hurston