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