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The greatest enemies of freedom are the extremely rich and the extremely poor, because one is willing to buy it while the other is willing to sell it. ↗

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

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She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to. ↗

— Cynthia Voigt

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Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside. ↗

— John Kremer

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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paraphrased #self-expression #death

Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

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And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens. ↗

— Victor Villaseñor

#freedom #inspirational #reading #reading-motivation #education

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— George Rivorie

#destiny #earth #equality #equality-of-cultures #foundation

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union stagger, but we could lose our congress, our president, and our general staff and nothing much would have happened. We would go right on. In fact we might be better for it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#freedom #individuality #us-politics #change

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others. ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

#freedom #leadership #freedom

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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