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    We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

by Theodor Adorno Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

by Adlai E. Stevenson Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

by Unknown Author Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an read more

You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

by Malcolm X Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought

by Pope John Paul Ii Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of read more

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this
youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of
Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of
Switzerland.
- Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,

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I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

by Voltaire Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
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Ah me! they view'd beneath read more

O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
. . .
Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword
Fallen Kosciusco.

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