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  • Gordon Parks on freedom

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    “I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.” -Gordon Parks

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  • Robert Casey on freedom

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    “The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.” -Robert Casey

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  • Kristi Yamaguchi on freedom

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    “At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.” -Kristi Yamaguchi

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  • Sean Parker on freedom

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    “I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.” -Sean Parker

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  • Paul Twitchell on freedom

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    “The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness.” -Paul Twitchell

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  • Tahar Ben Jelloun on freedom

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    “New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  • Michel Aoun on freedom

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    “Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” -Michel Aoun

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  • Kurt Tucholsky on freedom

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    “Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that’s what we’re needing! We’ve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o’clock.” -Kurt Tucholsky

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  • Mike Wallace on freedom

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    “My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.” -Mike Wallace

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  • Richard Cobden on freedom

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    “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.” -Richard Cobden

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  • Margaret Sanger on freedom

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    “Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.” -Margaret Sanger

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  • Anish Kapoor on freedom

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    “That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.” -Anish Kapoor

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  • Ai Weiwei on freedom

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    “The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.” -Ai Weiwei

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  • Henry Cabot Lodge on freedom

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    “Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.” -Henry Cabot Lodge

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  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on freedom

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    “People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – let’s say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.” -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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  • Richard Trumka on freedom

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    “I say let’s go back to a truer use of the word ‘freedom.’ Let’s start with President Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.” -Richard Trumka

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  • Kenny Loggins on freedom

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    “Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.” -Kenny Loggins

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  • Kris Kristofferson on freedom

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    “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” -Kris Kristofferson

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  • Ho Chi Minh on freedom

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    “The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.” -Ho Chi Minh

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  • Horst Koehler on freedom

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    “Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.” -Horst Koehler

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  • Christopher Dodd on freedom

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    “Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.” -Christopher Dodd

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  • Dan Stevens on freedom

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    “None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.” -Dan Stevens

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  • Tim Robbins on freedom

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    “Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.” -Tim Robbins

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  • Harry Browne on freedom

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    “The communitarians may say you’ve been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life – to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.” -Harry Browne

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  • Joichi Ito on freedom

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    “Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.” -Joichi Ito

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