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"We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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Source: William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library
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