Nadia Murad Quotes

I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

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

There is not a man among them who would not leave if they believed they could make their escape … Liberty is sweet.

Fear is the first obstacle we have to get over in our battle for freedom

There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.

Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.

I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.

I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.

Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.

Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.