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" Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. "

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" The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. "

Ellen Willis

Religion

Struggle

Freedom

" 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. "

" The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. "

" Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. "

" If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. "

Henry A. Wallace

Freedom

Service

" The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. "

" I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. "

" China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. "

" President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life. "

" The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. "

" I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. "

Islom Karimov

Than

Say

" 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. "

" While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected. "

" Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. "

" I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. "

" In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. "

" How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. "

" The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. "

Maximilien Robespierre

Tyranny

People

Lies

" We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions. "

" Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. "

Mitt Romney

Freedom

Others

" Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. "

" The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. "

" Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised. "

Ferdinand Marcos

Freedom

Just

" We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. "

" Responsibility is the price of freedom. "

" We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future. "

" Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom. "

" It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. "

" Freedom lies in being bold. "

" I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. "