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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "

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" It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. "

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" I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. "

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" If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. "

" For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. "

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

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" People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "

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" Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

" I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. "

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" The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. "

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" He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "

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" When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. "

Jacqueline Novogratz

" Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. "

" One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will. "

" Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. "

" 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. "

" Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. "

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" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "

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" If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. "

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" I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. "

" 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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" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

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" As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation. "

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" If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! "

" I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. "