Zosime who was never a slave but in body, has now gained freedom for her body too.
Independence Day Quotes
Despite the name, this is not a page about the American Fourth of July. It is built from the freedom and patriotism pages, and the writers who turn up come from all over: the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, the Italian anarchist Bruno Filippi, Shakespeare, Anna Quindlen. De Burgos has a line about an invaded nation where today’s battlefield is independence.
A few entries are there because of a keyword, not a mood. Cervantes’s remark about not thrusting his nose into other men’s porridge (Don Quixote, 1605) is about minding your own business. If you want something for a speech, sort by source grade and skip the oddities.
Most quoted on independence day:
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.
A man who learns to read and write is half-way to freedom by that one fact.
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening.