Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
Freedom
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-Bill Moyers
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
-Kris Kristofferson
Open up, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
