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«When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin? Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you?re not supposed to be there because ? of the color of your skin.?»
«While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free»
«When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle»
«When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.»
«What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes»
«What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
ceases, expression, Freedom of expression, offend, offending, offends, without expression
«When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
against the rules, engrave, engraved, engraves, engraving, Freedom of conscience, Hearts of, rule of, rule of law, The Rule of Law, The Voice, voice of conscience
«What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
and how, brute, course of action, desert, dwells, embark, embarked, embarking, embarks, embark on, gravity, law of gravity, liberate, quarries, quarry, setting, set free, significance, stone, The Quarry, thirst, trace, tracing, unfeeling
«What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
forbid, go down, ominous, Road to Freedom
«We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free»
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