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" I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. "

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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. "

Coretta Scott King

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" Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. "

" Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

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" The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that. "

" The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. "

" There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate. "

" When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it. "

" The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. "

" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "

" 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. "

" You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. "

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

" Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. "

" The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing. "

Cory Booker

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" Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently. "

" When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. "

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

" Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. "

" In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. "

" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

" I think people are going to places that they weren't able to with television before, and I think Netflix really paved the way for that. With freedom comes better content, and with better content comes great actors and a bigger audience. I think that has just snowballed into a movement for making really great TV. "

" The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. "

" Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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Freedom

" 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. "

" It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle. "

" Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom. "

" Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. "

" It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. "

" You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself. "

" What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. "