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Freedom Quotes
"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."
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"Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body."
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"Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development."
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"There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom."
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"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules, it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."
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"Let it go with love, you will never lose anything."
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"Joblessness sets you free."
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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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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
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"LightThat's how I feel-like the winter-fringedbreeze might scoopme up into its wings,flyaway with me trappedin its feathered embrace.I am a snowflake.A wisp of eiderdown,liberatedfrom gravity. My bodyis light. Ephemeral.My head is light.I want to swaybeneaththe weight of air,dizzy with thought.Light filters throughmy closed eyelids.The sun,chasing shadows,tells me I'm notafloat in dreams."
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"Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?"
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"Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we as individuals might have a say in governing our country? Honor the lives sacrificed for your freedoms. Vote."
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"We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears."
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"But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security."
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"Don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust."
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"Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains."
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"Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is."
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"She had not understood what it had been like for him to live his entire life underground, chained and beaten and crippled-until then. Until she heard that noise of undiluted, unyielding joy.Until she echoed it, tipping her head back to the clouds around them.They sailed over a sea of clouds, and Abraxos dipped his claws in them before tilting to race up a wind-carved column of cloud. Higher and higher, until they reached its peak and he flung out his wings in the freezing, thin sky, stopping the world entirely for a heartbeat.And Manon, because no one was watching, because she did not care, flung out her arms as well and savored the freefall, the wind now a song in her ears, in her shriveled heart."
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"The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency."
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"Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with."
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"Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation."
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"Keep your mind free and independent even when someone wants to imprison your body."
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"Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved."
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"Freedom is a daring liberation."
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"It is never crowded at the mountaintop."
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"Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of the day where all the glory resides."
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"My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it."
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"Stop letting others decide your life for you. You only have a lifetime to live on earth. Make it count by all means. Stop hiding in the background. Let the world know what you are truly made of."
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"When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy, they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters."
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
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"The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom."
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"The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving the next morning but that he had gone away many years before with the irrevocable determination never to return."
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