"Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate."
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
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"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."
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"We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake."
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"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees."
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"When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind."
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"Democracy is when the people keep a government in check."
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"In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them."
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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish"
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"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired."
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"Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
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"Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom."
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"Freedom is from within."
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"A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom."
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"...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state."
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"All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly."
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"Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved."
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"Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?"
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"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
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