Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call"

Kilari Anand Paul, Priest

"One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers"

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Theologian

"Where liberty dies, evil grows"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington"

John Podhoretz, Writer

"An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution"

George Haven Putnam, Soldier

"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away"

George Jackson, Activist

"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation"

George Jackson, Activist

"And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda"

Eric Alterman, Writer

"For the first time I'm free to be myself"

Ed Balls, Politician

"Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers!"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"I walk where I choose to walk"

Norman Thomas, Activist

"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"My eyes, my brain, seek out escape routes wherever I am sent"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning"

Della Reese, Musician

"My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors"

Franklin Knight Lane, Politician

"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection"

Crystal Eastman, Lawyer

"Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run, I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues"

Chris Bell, Politician

"I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country, it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination"

George Jackson, Activist

"What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both"

Dick Gephardt, Politician

"In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious"

Ethan A. Hitchcock, Soldier

"Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not"

Daniel Pipes, Author

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