“Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a r...” — Svetlana Alexievich Quote

“Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.”

“I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.”

“The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.”

“Union membership should not be a condition for employment, and workers should have the freedom to exercise their right to determine how their hard-earned money is spent.”

“The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!”

“To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.”