Freedom Quotes

"I've a right to think"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is an affront."

"All ways here are ways of my ways."

"I don't much care where."

"I no longer had to ask my father's permission to think."

"It seemed like there was nothing to owe anybody. I could just be myself now. But even as I thought it, I knew it wasn't true."

"My mother's choices were not my own."

"I've a right to think"

"My father believed the government was our enemy. But I learned that ignorance was the real threat."

"The most radical thing I could do was think for myself."

"I chose a different path, even though it meant losing my family."

"I was not in control of my life. I was not in control of my mind."

"We were not controlled by law. We were controlled by Dad."

"The mountains were beautiful, but they were also a prison."

"There are no good choices when all your options have been taken away."

"I was shaped by my family's beliefs, but I was not enslaved by them."

"I've a right to think what I choose."

"My father held the knife, and I was the blade he wielded"

"Buck Peak was a prison of the mind"

"I refused to let my father's reality be my reality"

"I chose to be educated, and in doing so, I chose freedom."

"Education was the key to my freedom."

"I was alone, but I was free."

"I had never been free. I had never believed myself capable of being free."

"My father believed that ignorance was a form of purity. I learned that knowledge is freedom."

"I realized that telling my story was an act of liberation."