Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"America was and is the immigrant's dream"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand, and social responsibility on the other"

Chris Patten, Politician

"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself, although I write about being a prisoner"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"It has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"So, Blair, keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"Why can you get a driver's license that is recognized state-to-state but a concealed weapons permit is not treated the same? There is a process to do that in a Trump administration because it makes sense"

Donald Trump Jr., Businessman

"Freedom is like a cucumber, you have to eat it fresh"

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government"

William Weld, Politician

"I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in, and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"The more she rejected us, the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live"

John Avlon, Writer

"Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't"

Robert Nozick, Philosopher

"So government acts as a safeguard of our property"

William Weld, Politician

"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties"

William Weld, Politician

"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration"

Robert Reich, Economist

"On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

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