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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"I have come to understand the nature of my imprisonment."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"The act of creation is the only true freedom."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
M
"Do you ever think, Laila, that maybe we've been women too long?"
Mariam
L
"I will not be a slave in my own home."
Laila
L
"She would walk the streets of this city as a woman unchained."
Laila
T
"Liberty paints us all with the same brush, yet sees us differently."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"I am not a free woman."
Offred
O
"Freedom, I realize, is more than the absence of chains."
Offred
J
"I never knowed how good it was to be free"
Jim
N
"What happened after you told your mama she was a bitch?"
Nettie
C
"Now I want women to wear whatever they want and go wherever they please."
Celie
M
"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."
Moira
T
"Being invisible provides a kind of freedom."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"I had been trying to escape from one mode of invisibility to another."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
J
"Freedom is a gift that few truly understand."
Jean Valjean
J
"The chains that bind us are often of our own making."
Jean Valjean
L
"We are bound by circumstance and custom, but not by our choices."
Laila
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
"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"Men are always trying to save me."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"I am coming out, invisible man."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"Freedom is not simply a condition to be obtained."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"I will not be bound by their definitions."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
M
"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."
Moira
O
"Everything I value is tied to freedom."
Offred
M
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life."
Marius Pontmercy
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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
H
"We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us."
Huckleberry Finn
J
"Freedom is a hard thing to know what to do with"
Janine
O
"I used to think of my body as an instrument of my pleasure"
Offred