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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man."

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"Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man."

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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

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"Do not become a slave to sin."

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"I think I have a right to live my life the way I like."

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"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."

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"When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed."

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"If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail."

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"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."

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Amber Hurdle

"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

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"Freedom is choice to follow your own dreams."

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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."
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