#free man

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. ↗

— Javier Perez de Cuellar

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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. ↗

— George Mason

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I've been a free man. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ↗

— Alan Paton

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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. ↗

— William McKinley

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