Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march. But everybody here's got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son-of-a-bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

"The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice"

Lee Harvey Oswald, Criminal

"I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth, except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited"

Russell Means, Activist

"But I don't want anybody to say, have the right to say, well, if you bloody Brits don't like it, go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"People have a right to criticize"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement explain American development"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

"I've made it abundantly clear, and I'll repeat, yet again, there's no question of gagging individuals"

Ron Davies, Politician

"Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"I left Russia in 1993, optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention"

Lee Harvey Oswald, Criminal

"In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it"

John J. Sweeney, Businessman

"Freedom isn't for wimps"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king, or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship"

Peter Bichsel, Writer

"The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"We don't need a nation that has national identity cards"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations"

Russell Means, Activist

"The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them"

Harry Reid, Politician

"Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear"

Florynce R. Kennedy, Lawyer

"The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened"

Bella Abzug, Lawyer

"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset"

Robert Cormier, Author

"I think being different, going against the grain of society, is the greatest thing in the world"

Elijah Wood, Actor

"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"We have essentially a worthless democracy"

Aaron McGruder, Artist

"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the Constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country"

John Acton, Historian

"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

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