“To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.”
— Ma Jian
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“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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“Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.”
— Stokely Carmichael
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“I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.”
— William Weld
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“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
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“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”
— Herbert Read
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“Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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“It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.”
— Godfrey Reggio
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“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.”
— Coretta Scott King
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“Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.”
— Haruki Murakami
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