#free

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american public #been #believe #best

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#affordable #care #court #dies #freedom

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#case #comes #day #eastern #equal

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#bush #congress #democracy #expansion #freedom

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#events #foreign #foreign policy #freedoms #furthers

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#away #conflict #echoes #freedom #given

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#butterflies #free #i #only