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 is never finished."
Davis, Angela
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"Freedom is collective or it is not freedom at all."
Davis, Angela
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"The struggle for freedom encompasses all dimensions of life."
Davis, Angela
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"Freedom requires constant vigilance and action."
Davis, Angela
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"Freedom requires the destruction of heterosexual contract."
Wittig, Monique
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"The lesbian is not a woman; she escapes the category."
Wittig, Monique
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"Authenticity requires breaking with prescribed roles."
Wittig, Monique
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"Categories limit; imagination liberates."
Wittig, Monique
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"The act of creation is an assertion of freedom."
Wittig, Monique
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"Literature is the practice of freedom through language."
Wittig, Monique
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"Recognition is not a luxury but a necessity for human dignity and social participation."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Representation matters because some voices are systematically excluded from public discourse."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Public spheres are essential spaces where ordinary citizens can contest authority."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Emancipation requires both material security and cultural dignity."
Fraser, Nancy
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"The ability to participate as an equal is the measure of justice."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Counter-publics allow marginalized groups to develop oppositional interpretations."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Democracy requires spaces where all can participate in defining the common good."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Emancipation requires transforming the material and cultural conditions of life."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Emancipation is not the end of politics but its true beginning."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Emancipation means becoming the authors of our own lives and society."
Fraser, Nancy
F
"We must create conditions for genuine democratic deliberation across difference."
Fraser, Nancy
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"Temporal autonomy is perhaps the deepest form of freedom in contemporary society."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We must resist the colonization of leisure by the logic of acceleration."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to accept others' definitions of your life."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Patriarchal thought has limited our vision of what is possible."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Language can be a place of resistance."
Rich, Adrienne
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"We need to imagine a world where women define themselves."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The moment of writing is the moment of greatest freedom."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The future is not predetermined; we create it through our choices."
Rich, Adrienne
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"We are not born with a gender; we are compelled to perform it constantly."
Butler, Judith