“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Here I am
Gett Off
Song lyrics, Diamonds and Pearls (1991)

Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

"We Don’t Live Here Anymore"
Women + Country (2010)

1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
Context: It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

Source: As quoted in The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, by Francis Bacon

The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

To Algernon Sidney, one of the judges at the trial of Charles I (December 1648)

PvP (1998)