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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"Freedom means taking responsibility for our actions and their consequences."
Davis, Angela
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"Real freedom requires the abolition of systems of oppression."
Davis, Angela
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"The conditions for freedom must be created through struggle."
Davis, Angela
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"The struggle for freedom is fundamentally about human dignity."
Davis, Angela
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"Freedom is a process, not a destination."
Davis, Angela
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but a way of being constrained."
Butler, Judith
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"Women must refuse the role society has written for them."
Wittig, Monique
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"The categories we inherit are prisons we must escape."
Wittig, Monique
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"Women's liberation requires the destruction of heterosexuality as an institution."
Wittig, Monique
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"Freedom requires the dismantling of all totalizing systems."
Wittig, Monique
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"The mind's liberation is inseparable from the body's freedom."
Wittig, Monique
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"Freedom is not given; it must be taken and remade constantly."
Wittig, Monique
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"Desire is the first language of liberation."
Wittig, Monique
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"Liberation is not a destination but a continuous refusal."
Wittig, Monique
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"Woman's refusal to be written by patriarchy is her first freedom."
Wittig, Monique
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"The greatest act of freedom is the refusal to obey."
Wittig, Monique
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"To claim one's desire is to claim one's life."
Wittig, Monique
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"We have become prisoners of the nature-culture divide that we ourselves created."
Latour, Bruno
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"Modernism promised liberation from tradition, but it created new forms of bondage."
Latour, Bruno
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"We must learn to resist the tyranny of acceleration that governs contemporary life."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"To slow down is to reclaim agency in a world obsessed with speed."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Modernity promises liberation but delivers only new forms of bondage."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We have confused having options with having freedom."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The erosion of temporal autonomy is one of the defining features of modernity."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We confuse the expansion of choices with the expansion of freedom."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Freedom is not given to us; it is something we must claim through our own efforts and resistance."
hooks, bell
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"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to accept others' versions of who you are."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The struggle for freedom is never finished."
Rich, Adrienne
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
Davis, Angela
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"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people have to take."
Davis, Angela