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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
- Wimps
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom isn't for wimps.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it wasn't for so many brave people standing up, speaking out, and fighting for equal rights, we might not have all of the luxuries of freedom that we have today. So many unsung people fought for us to be able to live together in harmony no matter how different we are from one another.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020