#free

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. ↗

— Arrian

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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ↗

— Mary Astell

#free #how #men #slaves #women

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results. ↗

— George P. Baker

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For the first time I'm free to be myself. ↗

— Ed Balls

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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom. ↗

— Javier Bardem

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