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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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Mahatma GandhiThe Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time ...

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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able t...

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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the funda...

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I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill...

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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs t...

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When the whole world is silent,Even one voice becomes powerful.

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power...

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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't le...

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, y...

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...

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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

You are either free or not free

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to e...

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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to ...

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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morn...

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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...

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What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity i...

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There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days ...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...

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I know why there is no glass, in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window ...

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The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother...

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Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother...

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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...

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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

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When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

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Margaret ThatcherThe Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever...

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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom a...

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If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with ...

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What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is ...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

The embrace of essential beastliness, made scientific and respectable by a reading of Darwin that ma...

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Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

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Marina TsvetaevaСводные тетради

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality...

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The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule o...

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The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers lo...

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Marjane SatrapiThe Complete Persepolis

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on t...

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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics whi...

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay ...

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: fr...

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Mark TwainA Tramp Abroad

Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be ric...

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The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

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There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his strid...

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered a...

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But I am also concerned about our moral uprightness and the health of our souls. Therefore I must op...

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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which ...

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom ...

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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you ...

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Masha GessenWords Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...

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It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what...

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Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one t...

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We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves i...

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Don't let the man bring you down.

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Maya AngelouThe Heart of a Woman

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transform...

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Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ...

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The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages the...

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Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and en...

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[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are ...

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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before....

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in or...

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We should tend our freedom wisely.

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Michel de MontaigneThe Complete Essays

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of g...

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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other me...

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...

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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...

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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

If you’ve been exiled, why don’t you send me word of yourself? People do send word. Have you stopped...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help ...

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If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs ...

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It is precisely when their interior worlds change shape that Bezukhov and Bolkonsky are confirmed as...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

Encouraged by her parents’ applause, the girl went on: “Do you think we take off our tops to give yo...

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I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural...

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equ...

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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whate...

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I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...

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Then why do we do so many bad things?He sighed. “Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s a...

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Mitch AlbomHave a Little Faith: a True Story

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of relig...

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Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom...

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I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and o...

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And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class...

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