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Connexions Quotations
Freedom
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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared,
and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.
It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other,
the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
- Wendell Berry
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.
- Albert Camus
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
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Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party
– however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive,
wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic,
and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.
- Rosa Luxemburg
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would also be free.
- Rosa Parks
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thought and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.
- - Frederick Douglass
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No person combats freedom; at most they combat the freedom of others. Hence every kind of freedom has always existed, only at one time as a special privilege, at another as a universal right.
- Karl Marx
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
- Noam Chomsky
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People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
- Rosa Parks
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So please, my American friends, don’t let your political leaders and the establishment fool you into believing the slogan, “They hate us (Americans) because they envy our freedom.” You have precious little freedom left anyway, but you are hated not for the freedom your parents once had, you are hated because you are denying us our freedom.
- Shaukat Qadir
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Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
- Arundhati Roy
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There can be no self-activity without freedom of thought and opinion, for self-activity manifests itself not only in initiative, action, and work, but in
independent thought as well.
- Alexandra Kollontai
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Whenever a particular freedom is put in question, freedom in general is put in question.
- Karl Marx
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To learn more about Freedom, explore the Connexions Subject Index Freedom page and the Civil Liberties page.
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