Everett Alvarez Jr. Quotes

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.

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

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

Man is everywhere still in chains.

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

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

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

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom on those who are not free.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

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

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.