Freedom Quotes
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These quotes brought to you by freedom of speech. Click on any freedom quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?"Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell

"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"Source: Battle of Bunker Hill | Speaker: William Prescott

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver

"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman

"I have not yet begun to fight."Source: Spoken on September 23, 1779 | Speaker: Captain John Paul Jones

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass

"I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"Source: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Speaker: Queen

"I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I'm here to fight for truth and justice and the American Way."Source: Superman | Speaker: Superman

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts."Source: "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" | Speaker: Danny Kaye

"I've got no strings to hold me down, to make me fret, or make me frown."Source: I've Got No Strings | Speaker: Pinocchio

"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Ella Fitzgerald

"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"Seize the moment. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead."Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation."Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. | Author: Coretta Scott King

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way"Source: On Liberty | Author: John Stuart Mill

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe! You have to make it fall."Source: Libération | Speaker: Che Guevara

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Source: Diggers (The Bromeliad Trilogy) | Author: Terry Pratchett

"The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry."Source: The Trouble with Poetry | Author: Billy Collins

"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"Source: Braveheart | Speaker: William Wallace

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us."Source: Speech at the Audubon Ballroom | Speaker: Malcolm X

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."Source: Seduction of the Minotaur | Author: Anaïs Nin

"Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate's life for me! We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot!"Source: Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) | Speaker: Pirates

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith