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FREEDOM
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Freedom
has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily
earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will
wither and die.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower | Only the educated
are free.
-- Epictetus
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The
fight for freedom is combined with the fight for equality, and we must realize
that this is the fight for America - not just black America but all America.
-- James Farmer |
We must be
free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-- William
Faulkner
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They
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin
Franklin "A
nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights
which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance
that tyranny begins."
-- Benjamin
Franklin |
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Enslave
the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril"
-- William Lloyd Garrison |
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Promoting
active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.
It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate
in society and the political process.
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg |  |
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Freedom
means to build a democratic system enshrined with the respect for fundamental
rights of Man, of the human being, of the individuals.
-- Xanana
Gusmão |  |
Liberty lies in
the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court
can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
-- Judge Learned Hand
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Without
free, self-respecting and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent
nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the
citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
-- Vaclav
Havel | The
fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must
consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
-- Samuel
Hendel “We need
to be activating deep democracy because democracy is fleeting through our fingers,
and most people are unaware of it. Democracy is about dispersing power among the
interconnected people. As a people, we need to rise to the level of forcing our
leaders to abide by our stated principles - really exercise democracy, not only
on our behalf but on behalf of the world. We need to continue, as part and parcel
of the American experience created by the founding forefathers, and now the foremothers,
to insist, "We want democracy to work, and that means every voice counts."
-- Dr. Azizah al-Hibri
We can enhance democracy
by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus
unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard |  |
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our
land is now, more than ever before, the last best hope on earth. I know that we
can--I know that we shall--begin here the fuller and richer realization of that
hope--that promise of a land where all men are truly free and equal, and each
man uses his freedom and equality wisely and well
-- Hubert
Humphrey
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Yes,
a new day is here. Across America -- throughout the entire world -- the forces
of emancipation are at work. We hear freedom's rising chorus: “Let me live my
own life. Let me live in peace. Let me be free," say the people.
-- Hubert Humphrey |
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