Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
-Emma Lazarus
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
