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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#fanon #freedom #negritude #onwuegbute #family

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#children #education-system #family #freedom #education

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. ↗

— Rob Bell

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Don't let the man bring you down. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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He who is brave is free ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#freedom #gallantry #freedom

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#freedom #memory #freedom

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... ↗

— Paulo Freire

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We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all. ↗

— Ron Paul

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