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

M
"There are two kinds of freedom, freedom to and freedom from"
Moira
T
"Freedom is a state of mind."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"I am not responsible for what they see."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
L
"I am running away from the man who has been nothing but cursed to me."
Laila
M
"This is what I choose."
Mariam
L
"This is my life, and I will live it as I see fit."
Laila
C
"It ain't no use you looking down and askng that old white man nothing, he the one been keeping us separated to begin with."
Celie
C
"I'm here. I'm Black. I'm free."
Celie
T
"Being invisible provides a kind of freedom."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"Freedom is a constant test."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"The price of freedom is uncertainty."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
M
"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."
Moira
M
"A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, so long as it likes the food they've left there."
Moira
S
"Here in this place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in fields."
Shug Avery
M
"Freedom is a sacred right."
Marius Pontmercy
H
"I reckon I got to light out for the territory."
Huckleberry Finn
H
"They don't have no choice."
Huckleberry Finn
A
"We are all imprisoned by the expectations of others."
Ammu
T
"Language itself becomes a prison for thoughts too dangerous to express."
The Narrator (omniscient)
L
"There is no good in anything if you rob people of their choice."
Laila
M
"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."
Moira
O
"I could do anything, within the bounds of what's allowed."
Offred
O
"I'm not used to having choices."
Offred
C
"I got to right of way."
Celie
H
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"
Huckleberry Finn
H
"I reckoned I would hide in the woods"
Huckleberry Finn
T
"Freedom is an expensive thing."
The Narrator (omniscient)
O
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"
Offred
M
"I'm not going to be like that. I'm not going to be a two-legged incubator."
Moira
O
"I am not my own body."
Offred