Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion"

Preston Manning, Politician

"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently"

Rand Paul, Politician

"Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any"

Jack Herer, Activist

"Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country"

Emile Lahud, Statesman

"What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush, and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race"

Stuart Rothenberg

"As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action"

Robert Shea, Author

"If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"

Johann G. Hamann, Philosopher

"I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I have said: democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving"

Pete Domenici, Politician

"Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"Nations have come under the control of haters and fools"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again"

Peter Hain, Politician

"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles"

Don Nickles, Politician

"They will sustain the Constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that Constitution when its integrity shall be threatened"

Lorenzo Snow, Clergyman

"Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"What we want is to become masters in our own house"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system"

Lew Wasserman, Producer

"It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media"

Shahrukh Khan, Actor

"I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things"

Johnny Kelly, Musician

"The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America, and our armed forces, and our coalition forces, are giving them the opportunity to do"

Johnny Isakson, Politician

"According to this view, democracy is a product of Western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East, which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered"

Benjamin Cohen, Journalist

"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland"

Ziaur Rahman, Politician

"I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back"

Rand Paul, Politician

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