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Freedom Quotes
"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."
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"To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments."
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"I am running and singing and when it's raining I'm the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it's cleaning me. I'm the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I'm the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I've made of myself."
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"I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms."
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"INTO MY OWNOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew- Only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
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"She should not remember what it was like to be free."
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"Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn't matter."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks."
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"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
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"The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it."
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"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."
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"The only way to set yourself free is to meet each new challenge relatively."
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"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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"Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, or to love our kind. . . . Where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours. . . then surely it is braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel . . . than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men."
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"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"No man was born in chains; it is their fellow man who has put them in chains, and at any given time, every single man and woman has the absolute right to break free from those chains of any nature and of any form! It is not God who has put you in any sort of bondage! It is your fellow man who puts you in bondage in the name of God!"
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"Joblessness makes you live without the fear of being fired."
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"The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers."
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"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
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"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."
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"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
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"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."
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"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate."
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"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said."
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"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails."
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"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world."
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"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
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"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!"
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"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality."
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"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."
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