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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."

"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."

"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."

"You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee"."
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"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."

"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."

"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."

"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
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