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What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.
Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom.
The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty.
Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde The Uses of Anger : Women Responding to Racism (1981)
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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