Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

I can say with truth mine is a situation of dignified slavery.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

There is not a man among them who would not leave if they believed they could make their escape … Liberty is sweet.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.