Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"My focus is that firearms are handled safely, and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"In this context, social consensus and institutions that embody this consensus must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement"

Dick Armey, Politician

"So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home"

Bill Janklow, Politician

"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem"

Donald Sutherland, Actor

"The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history"

Norman Corwin, Writer

"It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening"

Charlie Norwood, Politician

"Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid"

Chuck D., Musician

"Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"Democracy is not about one party dominating"

Ed Townsend, Musician

"Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"Liberty cannot be preserved if the manners of the people are corrupted"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"The House of Commons refused to receive the addresses of the colonies when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have"

Ali A. Saleh, Writer

"Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead, it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others"

Ali A. Saleh, Writer

"I think the Shiites want a theocracy"

Adnan Pachachi, Politician

"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests"

Ali A. Saleh, Writer

"Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that"

Ali A. Saleh, Writer

"To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon, so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence"

Stephen Hadley, Politician

"If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country"

Robert Greenwald, Director

"If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them"

Dan Farmer, Scientist

"The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion"

Lamar S. Smith, Politician

"The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation"

Franz von Papen, Politician

"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe"

James Talent, Politician

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