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" We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars. "

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" In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing. "

Langston Hughes

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Free

Writing

" Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. "

" I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom. "

" Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. "

" Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. "

" Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. "

" So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. "

" Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world. "

" True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. "

" To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. "

Shel Silverstein

Something

Freedom

" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "

" I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. "

Rosa Parks

Freedom

People

" The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. "

" We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. "

" The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan. "

" America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments. "

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

" True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. "

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

" But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem. "

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Freedom

Relax

Think

" Freedom is from within. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom

Within

" The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either. "

" Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression. "

" In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. "

" I think I have a right to live my life the way I like. "

" Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. "

" Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. "

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

" Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. "

" There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit. "