#freed

Freedom is realizing you have a choice. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as people inhabiting this particular land mass, have freedom, the for the rest of our lives we will go out and find what appear to be the boundaries and smack against them like a heart against the rib cage. If we reveal boundaries in the course of our movements, then we will expose the inherent lie in the use of the word freedom. I want to keep breathing and moving until I arrive at a place where motion and strength and relief intersect. I don't know what's ahead of me in the course of my life and this civilization. I just don't feel I have reached the necessary things inside my history that would ease the pressure in my skull and in my future and in my present. It is exhausting, living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them. ↗

— David Wojnarowicz

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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. ↗

— John Boehner

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Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering. ↗

— Ricki Lake

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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. ↗

— Demetri Martin

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The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. ↗

— Max Lerner

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I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. ↗

— Frank Leslie

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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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