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" Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure! "

William Lloyd Garrison

Mother

Challenge

World

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" Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence. "

" To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence. "

" I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office. "

" The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. "

George Richards Minot

Independence

Land

Men

" To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion. "

" In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks. "

" When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. "

" In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature. "

" Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it. "

Ian Smith

Want

Live

" I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge. "

" Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. "

" People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. "

" My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground. "

" One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. "

" We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government. "

" Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. "

" The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American. "

" In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence. "

" A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. "

" The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared. "

" I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence. "

" I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me. "

Emmanuel Macron

Needs

Worth

" When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed? "

" We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans. "

" As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil. "

Kathleen Troia McFarland

World

American

Drive

" When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration. "

" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "

" The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. "

" I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard? "

" For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times. "