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 am not bird; and no net snares me"
Santiago
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"We are prisoners of our own making."
Armstrong
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"I'm a Prisoner!"
Alice
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"When you own something, you become its owner, and then you become its slave"
The Alchemist
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"The choice to change is always yours to make"
Miss Honey
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"This is my way; where is yours? Thus I answered those who asked me for the way."
Zarathustra
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"Evil requires conformity"
Mrs. Which
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"I've a right to think."
Alice
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"Freedom is found in creativity"
Willy Wonka
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"I refuse to let them control me."
Matilda Wormwood
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"I've a right to think for myself."
Alice
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"Your mind is free no matter the circumstances"
Mrs. Which
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"I wish I could be a boy just for once."
Anne Shirley
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Mrs. Whatsit
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"I don't want to be a girl if you can't do anything without asking permission."
Anne Shirley
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"Your voice matters."
Matilda Wormwood
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"I feel like a prisoner escaped from gaol."
Anne Shirley
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"All the doors are locked on this side"
Alice
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"I don't have to be."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"I've a right to think."
Alice
A
"I'm in prison now, am I?"
Alice
A
"I'd rather be a bird than anything else in the world."
Anne Shirley
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"A cat may look at a king."
Cheshire Cat
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"I've a right to think."
Alice
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"It's a free country, isn't it?"
Harry Wormwood
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"Hollywood asks women to be one thing forever. I refused."
Evelyn Hugo
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"The world will try to define you. Don't let it."
Evelyn Hugo
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"The lesson is, that we should do whatever we like"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"The freedom I thought I had was just another kind of cage."
Evelyn Hugo
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"I wish I were a bird and could fly away from everything."
Anne Shirley