- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom Quotes
Freedom looks different depending on what you're free from.
Freedom shows up here in several forms - the room a genre gives an artist to take risks, the flexibility educators say they need to get real results, and the broader idea of personal liberty pushing back against overreach. For a related theme, see Courage Quotes.
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- Brotherly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.
- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never Give Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
- Nov 07, 2020
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020