Zainab al-Khawaja Quotes
We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.Zainab al-Khawaja
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
Forest Whitaker -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
Natasha Lyonne -
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey -
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller -
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Wendell Willkie
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
Naftali Bennett -
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
Os Guinness -
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
Gary Johnson -
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco -
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal -
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.
Dan Gable -
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
Larry Wall -
I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.
Chris Diamantopoulos -
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
Barry Humphries -
We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.
Zainab al-Khawaja