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FREEDOM
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| Freedom
is the most basic of all human rights, and yet throughout history many individuals
and nations have had to struggle to be free. Much progress has been made in helping
to win freedom for all. But even though all nations agreed to uphold the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights for their citizens, many people are not allowed these
basic liberties.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein |  |
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The
more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as
well as ourselves.
--
Oscar Arias Sanchez Hope
is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which
produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken
hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence,
the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.
-- Oscar Arias Sanchez
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"Liberty
and equality...will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government
to the utmost"
-- Aristotle
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We
could eradicate slavery. The laws are in place. The multi-nationals, the world
trade organizations, the United Nations, they could end slavery, but they're not
going to do it until and unless we demand it.
-- Kevin
Bales the
4th right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is that there can be no
slavery. Virtually every human being agrees that it is a moral wrong. Those key
battles are won by people who went before us, who had the really tough job. Our
job is simply to make sure that countries enforce their own laws and that slaves,
when freed, have an opportunity for rehabilitation, reintegration, education,
and so forth
-- Kevin
Bales |
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"Anti-democracy...is
a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think
we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy
and freedom."
-- Harry
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None
who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the
hope of freedom to those who are not free.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
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“We
are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according
to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children
in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves
in the world than at any other time in history.”
-- Charlotte Bunch
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The
well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until
peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.
-- Ralph
J. Bunche | The
people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
-- Edmund Burke
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"Everyone
has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation
of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life..."
-- Jimmy
Carter |
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There
are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty
-- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written
law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by public opinion.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt
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In
this possibly terminal phase of human existence,
democracy and freedom are more than just ideals
to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
-- Noam
Chomsky
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The
progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of
commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and
foreign offices.
-- Richard Cobden
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a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the
ultimate responsibility.”
-- Norman
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"Peace
can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free."
-- 14th Dalai
Lama Brute
force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire
for freedom.
-- Dalai
Lama *
Human
Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live
in peace and freedom.--
14th Dalai Lama |  |
You can only protect
your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only
be free if I am free.
-- Clarence Darrow
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it
is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever
we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with
the world, demands eternal vigilance. And democracy is no easy path, but those
of us who believe in it must be prepared to sacrifice in its cause more willingly
than those who are prepared to die in the wars of aggression. We, too, must be
dedicated to the cause of freedom.
-- Ossie
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“I
am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this
reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited
greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally
grateful.”
-- Johnny Depp
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“The only weapon I have
is my microphone and my unshakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”
-- Jean Dominique
You cannot
kill the truth. You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting
for.
-- Jean Dominique
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to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without
plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning; they want
the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one,
or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power
concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
-- Frederick
Douglass, 1857 *
Liberty
is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased
to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which
they first of all strike down.
-- Frederick
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is less than the price of repression.”
-- W.
E. B. DuBois *
There
is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The
human soul cannot be permanently chained.
-- W.
E. B. DuBois |  |
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-- Bob Dylan *
"How
many years can some people exist
before
they're allowed to be free..."
-- Bob
Dylan |
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