Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

Whether a miracle draws me out of here or I have to present myself on a scaffold, liberty and equality will be my first and last words…

In all the Arab countries I have been in, the people have said that they were not demonstrating for food. They wanted dignity.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved.

I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I'm walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.

I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The motive power of democracy is love.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.