Freedom Quotes

"I am not my grandmother's fears, nor am I my mother's sorrows."

"The only person who can define you is yourself, if you let them."

"Memory is a kind of freedom, though sometimes a painful one."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but the choice of which ones to accept."

"American freedom consists largely in talking about freedoms."

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom."

"Ours is an age of mass production and we will be its victims if we do not refuse to conform."

"A woman's body is her own business."

"We are not simply products of our circumstances; we are also architects of our own becoming."

"What we inherit from the past need not determine our future."

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

"The act of choosing is in itself a form of freedom."

"I don't have to be what you want me to be."

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

"You are only free when you realize you always were."

"The act of writing is an act of freedom."

"Freedom is not given; it is seized by those brave enough to demand it."

"I refuse to be confined by the expectations others place upon me."

"I refuse to be a symbol; I insist on being a human being."

"I refuse to accept the role I have been assigned and will create my own."

"Liberty is something that requires constant vigilance and sacrifice."

"Freedom is not given; it is seized and defended by those who cherish it."

"Freedom requires constant navigation between self and society."

"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality."

"I could see that she was already beginning to strain against her fate."

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Most of us are not as free as we think we are."