#freedom

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#into #man #out #servitude #takes

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#dignity #man #right

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#american dream #dream #freedom #humanity #liberation

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#american dream #dream #freedom #humanity #i

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ↗

— Malcolm X

#being #fight #freedom #human #human being

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#cast #chains #enhances #free #live

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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