“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.”
“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.”
“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.”