Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

Christopher Dodd

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"We are revolutionaries"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy, we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"A man is born free"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"No man can given anybody his freedom"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business!"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

Everett Dirksen

"Unlike other peoples, the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution, every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

Christopher Dawson

"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

Christopher Dawson

"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy, and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that, if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture"

Holly Near, Musician

"It's very important to vote. People died for this right"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

"You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"But I know newspapers. They have the First Amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

Steve Wozniak

"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

George Berkeley

"We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws"

Rick Warren, Writer

"I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore, do not take lightly the perils of war"

Thucydides, Historian

"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

Lucy Larcom

"I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit"

Eminem, Musician

Eminem

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

John Ciardi

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