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" Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. "

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" Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. "

" I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved. "

" Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life. "

Mahathir Mohamad

" I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. "

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. "

Alan Dershowitz

Freedom Of Speech

" 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. "

" Liberation is not deliverance. "

" Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. "

" While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not? "

" Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. "

" Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. "

" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "

" Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. "

Benjamin Franklin

" My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart. "

Sophie B. Hawkins

" To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot. "

" Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat's personality is never bet on a human's. He demands acceptance on his own terms. "

Lloyd Alexander

" We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. "

Alan Dershowitz

" You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. "

" Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

" I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There's no legislative authority; you're not elected. And that's a wonderful gift of freedom. "

" Freedom is never given; it is won. "

A. Philip Randolph

" I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me. "

" Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. "

Felix Frankfurter

" I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. "

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" We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. "

" Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. "

Black And White

" Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. "

Aung San Suu Kyi

" The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. "