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" Freedom is never granted; it is won. "

A. Philip Randolph

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" Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence. "

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" I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom. "

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" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. "

" The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. "

" We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures. "

" How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. "

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" We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. "

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" Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. "

" One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like. "

" No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. "

" That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build. "

Jeff Fortenberry

" Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "

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

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" Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. "

" Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. "

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" To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. "

" God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. "

" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "

" There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. "

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" The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming. "

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" Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform. "

" Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong. "

" Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important. "

" We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" No man is good enough to be another's master. "

" As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. "

" We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. "

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" There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. "

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