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"My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing"
Rob Reiner, Director
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary"
Malcolm X, Activist
"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression"
Malcolm X, Activist
"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril"
Harry S. Truman, President
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"
Andrew Jackson, President
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea"
James Madison, President
"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties"
James Madison, President
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask"
Jim Morrison, Musician
"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others"
Indira Gandhi, Statesman
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down"
Edward Abbey, Author
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it"
Edward R. Murrow, Journalist
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right"
Peter Marshall, Clergyman
"In all our associations; in all our agreements, let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people"
George Mason, Statesman
"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have"
Gerald R. Ford, President
"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy"
Stokely Carmichael, Activist
"All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride"
Corazon Aquino, President
"A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there"
Spike Lee, Director
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence"
Charles A. Beard, Historian
"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards"
Felix Frankfurter, Judge
"The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. One of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized"
William O. Douglas, Judge
"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought"
Charles Kingsley, Clergyman
"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war"
Philip Roth, Novelist
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