Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"The enemies of freedom will not prevail"

Bill Frist, Politician

"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy"

Claude Pepper, Politician

"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent"

James Connolly, Politician

"I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties"

Dennis Chavez, Politician

"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Freedom is living without chains"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth"

Margaret Walker, Poet

"I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"A government of, for, and by the people requires much from the people"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests"

David Duke, Celebrity

"We need a free media, not just freedom of speech"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America"

Vic Snyder, Politician

"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the First Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

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