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" Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. "

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" Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. "

" Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in the physics, everybody had to come up with his own idea what he was going to do. "

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" Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! "

" 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. "

" We must use time creatively. "

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

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" Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human. "

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" I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence. "

" Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. "

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" Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. "

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" Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom. "

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" The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. "

" When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. "

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" We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. "

" If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. "

" I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. "

" Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. "

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" To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about. "

" Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those. "

" Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. "

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" Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much. "

" My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.' "

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" To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. "

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