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Freedom Quotes
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
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"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
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"Freedom is the ultimate value in life. Nothing is higher than that."
92
"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
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"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
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"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out."
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"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
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"Freedom is not given to us by anyone we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out."
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"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
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"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
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"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."
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"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you."
50
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
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"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
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"There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom."
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"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
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"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
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"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
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"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can."
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"Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away."
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"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
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"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it."
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"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."
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"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
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"I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting."
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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
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"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect."
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"Freedom is not about having no limitations, but about rising above them."
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
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"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
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"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
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