Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"My life is my own, and I will direct it as I see fit."
Pi Patel
J
"I am condemned to be free; therefore I am responsible for everything I do."
Jean Valjean
H
"I ain't a-going to tell all I know"
Huckleberry Finn
H
"My new suit bothers me a little, I reckon I'll wear the old rags"
Huckleberry Finn
H
"I was powerful glad to get away"
Huckleberry Finn
H
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory"
Huckleberry Finn
J
"I wish I could be a boy."
Jo March
J
"I'd rather be a free woman and paddle my own canoe."
Jo March
J
"I never want to marry and settle down."
Jo March
J
"Better to be another man's slave than your own."
Jalil
B
"We are not free"
Benjamin
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 a corset."
Jo March
B
"We had to escape Afghanistan to survive."
Baba
O
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Old Major
O
"We will not trade with human farmers."
Old Major
L
"I have no choice in this."
Laila
L
"I am finally free."
Laila
H
"All I wanted was to go somewheres."
Huckleberry Finn
O
"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"
Old Major
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
H
"I was most powerful glad to get away from the widow's."
Huckleberry Finn
H
"I would rather be ignorant than civilized."
Huckleberry Finn
O
"Rebellion!"
Old Major
J
"The freedom of birds is an insult to us."
Judge Holden
T
"If you don't want to go, you don't have to"
Tom Sawyer
M
"We are all prisoners in this place."
Mariam
S
"If anything, she thought, slavery was all that."
Sethe
S
"Consent I never gave."
Sethe
S
"My body was not my own."
Sethe