Freedom Quotes
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After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
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The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
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Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem.
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I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.
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The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.
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There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.
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My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
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Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.
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Freedom! their battle-cry,— Freedom! or leave to die!
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.
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Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning anymore. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
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My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
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When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges.
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It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.
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I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
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If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.
