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Freedom Quotes
"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."
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"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will."
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"That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour."
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"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
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"To die hating them, that was freedom."
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"Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully."
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"I will howl with the wolves, soar above the eagles and roam wild with the Mustang. I will breathe life into the sunrise atop a mountain, bathe naked in the streams, dance in the sunset and love beneath the stars, travelling far and wide, seeking new experiences with those who dare to run with the wind, dare to touch the storm that is me..."
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"I am now ready to let go of anyone or anything that prevents me from being me."
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"Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys."
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"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere."
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"I earned the right not to compete for a man.He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him..."
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"Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure."
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"I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free."
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
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"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
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"Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic."
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"More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free."
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"I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?"
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"We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom " no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody."
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"The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
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"The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating."
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"Help me out, I pleaded. 'You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences.I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion."
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"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
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"What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it."
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"We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person."
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"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write."
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"They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it."
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"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
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"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
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"Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself."
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"You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both."
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"After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under pretence of coming for a book; and first, turning to the shelves, he selected a volume, and then quietly, but by no means timidly, approaching me, he stood beside me, resting his hand on the back of my chair, and said softly, 'And so you consider yourself free at last?'Yes, ' said I, without moving, or raising my eyes from my book, 'free to do anything but offend God and my conscience."
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