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We Are Not Free QUOTES

We Are Not Free QUOTES

1 " See, we don't got liberty, we don't got property, but you better believe we've got the Great American Right to die for a country that doesn't want us. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

2 " ...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

3 " Gaman. The ability to hold your pain and bitterness inside you and not let them destroy you. To make something beautiful through your anger, or with your anger, and neither erase it nor let it define you. To suffer. And to rage. And to persevere. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

4 " We are not free. But we are not alone. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

5 " I want to believe in right and wrong. Here is what's right. Here is what isn't. Here is the line. Here is the question: If I got to war for America, if I kill for America, if I support an America that doesn't support me, and I supporting my oppressors? Am I killing their enemies so they can later kill me? "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

6 " History is not dead. We have not moved on. Like Minnow and many of my other characters, I love this country because it is my home, and my parents’ home, and my grandparents’ home, and because I was raised to believe in the opportunity and equality America promises, but this does not prevent me from seeing its problems, seeing all the ways it has failed its people again and again. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

7 " Life’s not fair, but she doesn’t need it to be fair, because she can take anything life throws at her, and she won’t break. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

8 " We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

9 " If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

10 " I love this country because it is my home, and my parents’ home, and my grandparents’ home, and because I was raised to believe in the opportunity and equality America promises, but this does not prevent me from seeing its problems, seeing all the ways it has failed its people again and again. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

11 " You want and you want and you want, and no amount of wanting will return the moments you have lost and the people you have loved, but you have not lost so many pieces of yourself that you don’t want to give away one more. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

12 " I hope that in writing things will make sense again. They don't "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

13 " He’s always drawn a lot, but there’s something different about him lately. He used to disappear into the background like he was part of it. Now when he draws, you can’t miss him. He’s there in the middle of things, with this new ferocity, like if he doesn’t capture this moment, he’ll never get the chance. That’s how it is these days. You hesitate, and your neighbors have vanished. You look away, and your friends have been stolen from you. You blink, and you’re gone. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

14 " I started writing to you the day after your funeral. I wanted to believe that if I wrote to you, I wouldn’t lose you. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

15 " Being an American won't protect you when you have faces like ours. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

16 " He and I were standing on the curb, talking, as a group of Caucasian guys approached us, walking three abreast, like they were a great white plow rolling down the sidewalk. Without even thinking about it, I stepped aside, Leonard stepped aside, and I wondered at how we’d been trained to do this, to recede, to shrink, so that Caucasians can have more space. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

17 " Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

18 " is that what life was like? people coming together and drifting apart, coming together and drifting apart, over and over? "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

19 " there’s so much wrong with the world that it makes you wanna tear it down to the foundations. if I just rammed my head into them hard enough for long enough, all the backward frameworks and rotten girders of the world would crumble. and maybe then we could build something better "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free

20 " In PM Magazine, Dr. Seuss, the kids’ book author, has been drawing us with pig noses and wiry mustaches, queuing up for boxes of TNT. There are all sorts of cartoons like that. Sometimes we look like pigs, sometimes monkeys, sometimes rats. We never look like us. "

― Traci Chee , We Are Not Free