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B. R. Ambedkar on freedom
Author: B. R. Ambedkar“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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Peace Pilgrim on freedom
Author: Peace Pilgrim“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.” -Peace Pilgrim
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Kurt Huber on freedom
Author: Kurt Huber“A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.” -Kurt Huber
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Stephen Fry on freedom
Author: Stephen Fry“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” -Stephen Fry
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E. M. Forster on freedom
Author: E. M. Forster“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.” -E. M. Forster
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Vladimir Lenin on freedom
Author: Vladimir Lenin“While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.” -Vladimir Lenin
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Fran Lebowitz on freedom
Author: Fran Lebowitz“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.” -Fran Lebowitz
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Bodhidharma on freedom
Author: Bodhidharma“A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.” -Bodhidharma
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Harriet Tubman on freedom
Author: Harriet Tubman“I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.” -Harriet Tubman
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on freedom
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Ma Jian on freedom
Author: Ma Jian“To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.” -Ma Jian
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Doc Hastings on freedom
Author: Doc Hastings“137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America’s most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed – it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.” -Doc Hastings
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Theodore C. Sorensen on freedom
Author: Theodore C. Sorensen“We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.” -Theodore C. Sorensen
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on freedom
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger“Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Thom Yorke on freedom
Author: Thom Yorke“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.” -Thom Yorke
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Pythagoras on freedom
Author: Pythagoras“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.” -Pythagoras
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Alexis de Tocqueville on freedom
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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Malcolm X on freedom
Author: Malcolm X“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.” -Malcolm X
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Joseph Ratzinger on freedom
Author: Joseph Ratzinger“A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.” -Joseph Ratzinger
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Arthur Schopenhauer on freedom
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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Chuck Palahniuk on freedom
Author: Chuck Palahniuk“Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?” -Chuck Palahniuk
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Kurt Vonnegut on freedom
Author: Kurt Vonnegut“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” -Kurt Vonnegut
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Yasser Arafat on freedom
Author: Yasser Arafat“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.” -Yasser Arafat
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George Eliot on freedom
Author: George Eliot“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” -George Eliot
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William F. Buckley, Jr. on freedom
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people’s freedom and security.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.