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 body is political; how it moves through space is a matter of power."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The right to rest is a form of resistance in a culture of endless productivity."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Pleasure is political; to claim the right to it is to refuse the asceticism demanded of us."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Disorientation can be a form of freedom."
Ahmed, Sara
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"To follow is not the same as to obey."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The straight path is not the only way."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the right to choose them."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Freedom is the responsibility to choose wisely."
Gupta, Akhil
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"The body is never fully contained or controlled."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must resist normalization and standardization."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The question of becoming is the question of freedom."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must resist the reduction of life to calculability."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The nomadic subject refuses fixed identity and embraces fluidity."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We must refuse the comfort of stable identities."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Nomadic consciousness is a tool for liberation and transformation."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Nomadic consciousness allows us to escape the tyranny of fixed meanings."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Nomadic thought is a practice of freedom and resistance."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We must create space for the expression of feelings that dominant cultures seek to silence."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Pleasure is political; it is a form of self-determination and refusal."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We must defend spaces for expression that dominant culture seeks to police."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Homonormativity is a new form of control that appears progressive."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The queer life is one lived in excess of the norm."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The archive is a practice of resistance to official narratives."
Puar, Jasbir
"It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate."
Charles Darwin
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"We navigate the world through the bodies we inhabit."
Ahmed, Sara
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"To be queer is to be oriented differently toward the world."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We inherit the freedom others fought for; we must fight for it anew."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Freedom is not an absence of constraint but a capacity for creation within constraints."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We make ourselves through the choices we make."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We must resist the closure of meaning."
Grosz, Elizabeth