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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Liberty

"Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Liberty

"If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Liberty

"Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English."

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