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

B
"Sweet, child, and free."
Baby Suggs
O
"The life of an animal is misery and slavery"
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
O
"Man is the only real enemy we have."
Old Major
O
"Every animal would be free and equal."
Old Major
L
"A man makes his own choices."
Llewelyn Moss
C
"A woman can't be a woman less a man around, I heard this all my life."
Celie
C
"She ask me what would I do if I was free? And I never thought about it."
Celie
S
"I believe a good roll in the hay never hurt nobody."
Shug Avery
L
"The Taliban took everything from us, but they could not take our memories."
Laila
L
"We are prisoners in our own homes."
Laila
T
"The mind that has no certainty is a mind that knows some freedom."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
C
"I never thought I'd ever be free."
Celie
J
"To be in prison is to be deprived of everything that makes life worth living."
Jean Valjean
S
"We all got choices"
Shug Avery
M
"The supreme court of appeals from tyranny is conscience."
Marius Pontmercy
J
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that you don't exist even in the mind of your oppressor."
Jean Valjean
O
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the gaps between the stories."
Offred
O
"I am not her. I am myself."
Offred
M
"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."
Moira
O
"I would like to be the air."
Offred
L
"In this land, a woman's voice is like an echo in a canyon."
Laila
N
"I'm a woman. I'm supposed to stay home and have babies."
Nettie
C
"Mr. dead. I ain't sorry."
Celie
O
"I am not my own."
Offred
O
"There is more than one kind of freedom."
Offred
J
"You will never leave this house, Miriam. Do you understand?"
Jalil
T
"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"Being invisible provides a kind of freedom."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"In the darkness, I am finally free to exist as myself."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)