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" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "

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" Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. "

John Stuart Mill

" Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it. "

" I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. "

" Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "

" When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. "

" I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines. "

" I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden. "

" Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater. "

" Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. "

" If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. "

Fannie Lou Hamer

" I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. "

" The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. "

" If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. "

Emmeline Pankhurst

" Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" People demand freedom only when they have no power. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Freedom is the recognition of necessity. "

Friedrich Engels

" Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. "

Hans Christian Andersen

" You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. "

" Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. "

Coretta Scott King

" Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. "

" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "

" Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. "

" I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. "

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

" Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

" People call us heroes, but we are nothing compared to our police force and fire fighters and everybody who protects us and makes sure our freedom is held to the highest standard. "