Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century"

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

"In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with"

Sting, Musician

"When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

"I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed"

Johnnie Cochran, Lawyer

"Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"To the American people, I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right, and disagree, lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action!"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow"

George William Curtis, Author

"It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Some people think that, as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic, it will inevitably become more democratic"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our Constitution"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny"

William Godwin, Writer

"I was a little girl in World War II, and I'm used to being freed by Americans"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

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