If you can’t get high without getting arrested, you ain’t free.
If you can’t merely exist in the country without getting disappeared to a foreign concentration camp, you ain’t free.
If you can’t avoid being conscripted, you ain’t free.
If you can’t avoid being a wage slave without sacrificing your basic needs, you ain’t free.
If you can’t swear on national TV, you ain’t free.
If you can’t swear in your music without getting a stupid ass sticker stuck on the cover, you ain’t free.
If you can’t be autistic without ending up on a fuckin’ list, you ain’t free.
If you can’t piss in the bathroom you identify as, you ain’t free.
If you can’t get healthcare without jumping through hoops or going broke, you ain’t free.
If some court gets to decide on your healthcare, you ain’t free.
If you can’t paint art on the side of a building without being charged with a crime, you ain’t free.
If you can’t sleep on a park bench, you ain’t free.
If you can’t camp on public land, you ain’t free.
If you can’t afford to own a house with a full time job, you ain’t free.
If you can’t keep your tax dollars from going to support genocide, you ain’t free.
If you need 2 weeks notice and to get approval just to take a day to yourself, you ain’t free.
If you can’t afford to go to a concert because a third party wants to charge you a bullshit “service fee”, you ain’t free.
If you can end up homeless due to no fault of your own, you ain’t free.
If you can’t be a minority without being treated like a second-class citizen, you ain’t free.
If you can’t get married without losing your benefits, you ain’t free.
If you can’t exist without being documented, you ain’t free.
If you can’t afford the cost of living, you ain’t free.
If you’re forced to work multiple jobs just to survive, you ain’t free.
If you can’t own the means to defend yourself, you ain’t free.
If you can’t join a union without threatening your job, you ain’t free.
If you can’t express a leftist opinion without worrying about your safety or security, you ain’t free.
If you can’t choose your attire, you ain’t free.
If you can’t afford vacation time, you ain’t free.
If you can’t go swimming in a public waterway because it’s so polluted, you ain’t free.
If you can’t fully practice your ancestral religion, you ain’t free.
If you can’t die without your corpse being used to incubate a baby, you ain’t free.
if you can’t afford to take sick leave, you ain’t free.
If you can’t decide whether or not you want to have a baby, you ain’t free.
If you have to pay for your medication, you ain’t free.
If you can’t worship or not worship the god of your choosing without punishment, you ain’t free.
If you can’t get where you’re going without owning a car or paying someone who does, you ain’t free.
If your country tells you what to think, what to believe, or what to feel, you ain’t free.
If you can’t prevent your rights from being taken away, you ain’t free.