Adrienne Rich Quotes, Freedom Quotes, War Quotes

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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