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«You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.»
«Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.»
Author: Josephine Baker
| Keywords:
Born Free, breeds, brotherhood, dice, place of birth, skin color, The Skin, The Weight, tone, uniquely, weight
«Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. But I'm mistaken. The fact is I was captured only once, when I was born, only that capture is also setting free, which is what this is actually all about. The»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
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army, Born Free, capture, captured, mistaken, orphanage, orphanages, setting, three times
«Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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according, Act of, act upon, arbitrarily, Born Free, classes, Equal rights, exclusive, exercised, granted, lay, laying on of hands, lay hands on, legitimate, monopolize, monopolized, possess, possession, principles, sexes, sex act, sight, slaves, unjust
«Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Liberty
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Born Free, personal liberty
«Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.»
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