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 black man has never been free in America, and he is not free now."James Baldwin
"The goal of the oppressed is not to be oppressed, but to be free."James Baldwin
"At last I understand what the spirit of rebellion truly means."Pearl S. Buck
"True freedom is freedom from fear."Pearl S. Buck
"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world."John Steinbeck
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."William Faulkner
"I too sing America."Langston Hughes
"The dream of America has not yet been realized for all its people."Langston Hughes
"I have written to give voice to the voiceless."Langston Hughes
"Freedom is worth any sacrifice."Langston Hughes
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is an affront."Ernest Hemingway
"I wanted my life back."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The world doesn't need to understand you."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Freedom is never given, it has to be taken."Zora Neale Hurston
"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."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
"Provincialism is an enslaving condition and one must do everything to escape it."James Baldwin
"The greatest evidence of freedom is the ability to love freely and without condition."James Baldwin
"Every compulsion is put upon us by other people, hardly by ourselves."Sinclair Lewis
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Sinclair Lewis
"Dogma is the enemy of human sexuality."Sinclair Lewis
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."John Steinbeck
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty."Theodore Dreiser
"To be free one must be willing to face and accept death."Theodore Dreiser
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The woman's body is a gift from nature; how she adorns it is her concern."Pearl S. Buck
"One can never pay too high a price for the privilege of owning oneself."Edith Wharton
"The condition every art requires is freedom from external pressure."Willa Cather
"The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the wide, free gesture, the wind across the prairie."Willa Cather
"Revolt and freedom demand courage to live without the certainty that comes from popular opinion."Sinclair Lewis