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 struggle for freedom has no finish line."
Davis, Angela
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"We must destroy the categories of sex and gender."
Wittig, Monique
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"Freedom is not given, it is taken."
Wittig, Monique
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"Break the chains of patriarchal language."
Wittig, Monique
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"Women must refuse their assigned roles."
Wittig, Monique
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"We must reject imposed identities."
Wittig, Monique
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"Freedom requires breaking with tradition."
Wittig, Monique
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"Language can be reclaimed."
Wittig, Monique
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"Women's freedom is possible."
Wittig, Monique
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"Language must be liberated."
Wittig, Monique
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"Networks are sites of both constraint and possibility"
Callon, Michel
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"Every choice we make forecloses other possibilities"
Callon, Michel
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the right to choose meaningful ones."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"To slow down is not to reject progress but to reclaim it from the grip of mere acceleration."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Freedom is not doing whatever we want; it is not having to want what the system wants."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to accept others' versions of who you are and what you might become."
Rich, Adrienne
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"A lesbian continuum is a place-and-time of electric potentiality."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Thought cannot be forbidden for long without severe psychological damage."
Rich, Adrienne
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"We must imagine human life as genuinely free."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common words or easy words."
Rich, Adrienne
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"True lesbians desire is not itself revolutionary but represents a freedom of choice."
Rich, Adrienne
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"There is no liberation that only knows how to say 'No.'"
Rich, Adrienne
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"We cannot live fully if we are always performing for others."
hooks, bell
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"The work of freedom is never finished; it requires eternal vigilance."
hooks, bell
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"We find freedom not by escaping our circumstances, but by transforming them."
hooks, bell
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"We must resist systems that try to make us smaller than we are."
hooks, bell
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"The work of freedom is the work of our entire lifetime."
hooks, bell
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"To be free is to be responsible for the world we create together."
hooks, bell
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
Davis, Angela
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"We should think of freedom not as the absence of something but as the presence of something."
Davis, Angela