Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).?"

Michael Newdow, Lawyer

"I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers"

Michael Newdow, Lawyer

"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats"

John Dingell, Politician

"I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to make me write songs"

Dave Davies, Musician

"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort"

Don Johnson, Actor

"So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington, involving building a larger ownership society"

Harold Ford, Politician

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical"

Julian Assange, Activist

"I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"A man is accountable to no person for his doings"

James Otis, Lawyer

"It states, history should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States"

Mark Foley, Politician

"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject"

James Otis, Lawyer

"There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed"

James Larkin, Activist

"Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun"

Grover Norquist, Politician

"If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular, those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government, so there is more autonomy and more free citizens"

Grover Norquist, Politician

"I'm a promoter of the people, for the people, and by the people, and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American, people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls, 'cause the bell tolls for thee"

Don King, Celebrity

"There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County, Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say"

Gamaliel Bailey, Journalist

"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own"

James Otis, Lawyer

"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"I must say, the idea of a United Africa was nonsense"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me"

Harrison Salisbury, Journalist

"There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"In Iran, the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything"

Boy George, Musician

"In Italy, the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you"

Dario Argento, Director

"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class"

Annie Besant, Philosopher

"I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control"

Iris Chang, Historian

"I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort"

Anna C. Brackett, Educator

"There should be no censorship of mail"

Barbara Deming, Author

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