Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that"

Nigel Short, Celebrity

Friedrich Ebert, Politician

"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our democracy"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do, and I'll continue to do that"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure"

John Grierson, Director

"The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"I absolutely support President Trump 100 percent, and he inspired me to run. I got frustrated throughout his presidency watching Big Tech censor conservatives, so I'll be fighting back on that, because everyone has the freedom of speech"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right"

Joseph Sobran, Activist

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right, without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political"

Ignazio Silone, Author

"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"I want to warn against the Fifth Column, which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual"

Dennis Chavez, Politician

"Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject"

Joseph Story, Judge

"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions"

Ian Smith, Politician

"I'm tired of living in a police state"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

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