Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore, we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"Most people I know, I think, agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved"

Michael Newdow, Lawyer

"I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld"

Michael Newdow, Lawyer

"Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price"

Mark Foley, Politician

"If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill, it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"So in Asia, I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"Death is better than slavery"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there"

Colin Firth, Actor

"The way I look at it is this: as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives"

Craig Benson, Politician

"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read"

Albert Maltz, Author

"I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men"

James W. Fulbright, Politician

"By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy, institutions must function freely and with sovereignty"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans"

Tabare Vazquez, Statesman

"The press is like the air, a chartered libertine"

William Pitt, Leader

"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation"

William Odom, Soldier

"Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible"

Giuseppe Mazzini, Activist

"It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"U.S. journalists, I don't think, are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic or potentially subversive"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!"

Bettie Page, Model

"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned"

Jung Chang, Writer

"Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects"

James W. Fulbright, Politician

"The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man"

Robinson Jeffers, Poet

"Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

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