Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.
Jacqueline Woodson
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
Walter Jon Williams
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin
We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
Forest Whitaker
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Ralph Bellamy
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
Nawal El Saadawi
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
William E. Simon
If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
Condoleezza Rice
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
Jeff Ament
I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
Lady Gaga
Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.
Jacqueline Woodson
