Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"

Richard Marx, Musician

"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Diplomat

"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier"

Thomas F. Meagher, Soldier

"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves"

Leon Uris, Writer

"A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization"

John Milius, Director

"We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I will protect democracy with my life"

Thaksin Shinawatra, Politician

"U.S.A. is the speech of the people"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny, so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody"

Nigel Rees, Author

"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant"

Taylor Dayne, Musician

"Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour"

Lance Henriksen, Actor

"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"

Peter Stone, Writer

"When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can"

Shirley Williams, Politician

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it in Turkey as well"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"And when they do spin out of control, there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever"

John Pomfret

"You can cage the singer but not the song"

Harry Belafonte, Musician

"The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes"

Trent Lott, Politician

"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that"

Ron Silver, Actor

"In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition"

Ralph A. Cram, Architect

"In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism"

Michael Kinsley, Journalist

"In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population"

Lin Biao, Politician

"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city"

George Woodcock, Writer

"These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer"

Derek Jarman, Director

"Democracy derailed is democracy denied"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people"

Brad Thor, Novelist

"As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken"

Barry White, Musician

"Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group"

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations is the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers"

Josiah Warren, Inventor

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