"We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege."
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"Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined."
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"Man is condemned to be free"
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"Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end."
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"Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely."
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"[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose."
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"It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice."
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"While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom."
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"While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace."
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"And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
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"For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender."
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"Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?"
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"What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did."
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"Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!"
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"Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty."
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"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race."
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"White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!""
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"I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true."
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"We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands."
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"Don't let the man bring you down."
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