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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"We are all prisoners of our own making"
Count Dracula
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"Man is the only real enemy we have."
Old Major
O
"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."
Old Major
J
"I wish I could be a boy; then I wouldn't have to wear skirts and couldn't I do lots of hard things?"
Jo March
J
"I'd like to be a boy"
Jo March
J
"I wish I could run away from home"
Jo March
J
"Every woman should have the right to choose her own path"
Jo March
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"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it."
Huckleberry Finn
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"She put me in new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and feel all cramped up."
Huckleberry Finn
H
"We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us."
Huckleberry Finn
M
"The world has no use for girls like us."
Mariam
L
"Freedom begins in the mind."
Laila
O
"The life of an animal is misery and slavery."
Old Major
J
"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."
Jo March
J
"I wish I could be a boy—then I wouldn't have to wear skirts."
Jo March
H
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it."
Huckleberry Finn
J
"I have a dream that one day all men will be treated equally."
Jean Valjean
J
"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."
Jo March
J
"I wish I could be a boy; then I wouldn't have to wear skirts and couldn't people."
Jo March
J
"I wish I could be a boy."
Jo March
O
"Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland"
Old Major
L
"She learns that freedom is an internal state."
Laila
J
"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."
Jo March
J
"I wish I could be a boy; then I shouldn't have to wear beastly corsets and couldn't go to college."
Jo March
J
"I wish I was a boy!"
Jo March
A
"I'd like to be a boy too."
Amy March
J
"I want to be a boy."
Jo March
O
"The life of an animal is misery and slavery."
Old Major
J
"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."
Jo March
J
"I want to be a boy; it's so pleasant to be a boy."
Jo March