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Appreciation of freedom
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
Malcolm X
Beautiful African nameCassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
Muhammad Ali
Being unconscious of freedomMen are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. Lawrence
Born free
Condemned to be freeMan is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Discussing it freelyMen are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Lord Macaulay
Fight for freedomYou don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being
Malcolm X
FreedomIf you're not ready to die for it, take the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
Getting FreedomYou get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
Malcolm X
GlobalizationWhere globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
LibertyThere is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
D. H. Lawrence
Necessity is blindNecessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
No one is truly freeNo one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides
Nobody can give you freedomNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Only free menOnly free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
Part freedom
SlaveryThis is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Euripides
The best road
To be freeFor to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
To be free
To enjoy freedom
Walk to freedomThere is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
What is freedom?Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
What liberty meansIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
What's been done to you
With such hard knocksDo not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D. H. Lawrence
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