Born free Quote by Marcus Clarke

“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what…

— Wilhelm Reich

“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the…

— Frederick Douglass

“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant…

— Baroness Orczy

“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin somewhere. I…

— David Mitchell

“Wretched are they who defend freedom- they defend it at the cost of their own freedom!”

— Wali al-Din

“With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant…

— Terry Pratchett

“You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.”

— Nenia Campbell

“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he…

— Walter Scott

“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not stay. Let…

— Harriet Jacobs