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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!"

Mean Two Liberty
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Oscar Romero Archbishop, Activist
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"True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others."

Self Doe Liberty
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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!"

Rights Liberty Cuba
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
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"Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere."

Men Heart Liberty
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America."

America Names Liberty
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning."

Quality Liberty Elements
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved."

Desire Liberty Unions
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