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" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now. "

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" The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. "

" We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. "

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

" What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. "

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" I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. "

" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "

Svetlana Alexievich

" We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. "

" In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "

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" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "

" Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. "

" 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. "

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" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "

" You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. "

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" It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. "

" The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. "

Svetlana Alexievich

" Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. "

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