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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."
"By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England."
"The principal fact of life is the free mind."
"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."
"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."
"My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom."
"To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets."
"Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love."
"The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse."
"A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities."
"The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future."
"When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces."
"Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much."
"At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war."
"Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night."
"What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion."
"Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do."
"Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous."
"Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta."
"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail."
