“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”
— Edward Gibbon
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Certain things happened in the early church.
“Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.”
— Tony Campolo
Author: Tony Campolo
Category: freedom
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When I was teaching in the 1960s
“When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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I think of a hero as someone
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
— Bob Dylan
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Just living is not enough. One must
“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
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I had crossed the line. I was
“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.”
— Harriet Tubman
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a
“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I keep telling myself to calm down,
“I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.”
— Kate Adie
Author: Kate Adie
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Freedom consists not in doing what we
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”
— Pope John Paul II
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My name became known because I was,
“My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.”
— Angela Davis
Author: Angela Davis
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The media bring our wars home, but
“The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.”
— Bruce Jackson
Author: Bruce Jackson
Category: freedom
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