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