Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest"

Jimmy Breslin, Entertainer

"Tool of Communist agitators... It's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy, which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect"

Howard Coble, Politician

"We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion"

David Cronenberg, Director

"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic, which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it"

Learned Hand, Judge

"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives"

David McCallum, Actor

"Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful!"

Bill Frist, Politician

"If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government"

David Lloyd, Artist

"V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening"

David Lloyd, Artist

"I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket, because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing"

David Lloyd, Artist

"The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing"

David Lloyd, Artist

"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else!"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail"

Alfred Whitney Griswold, Educator

"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

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