* The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. -- Oscar Arias Sanchez * Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. -- Oscar Arias Sanchez

* "Liberty and equality...will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost" -- Aristotle

* We could eradicate slavery. The laws are in place. The multi-nationals, the world trade organizations, the United Nations, they could end slavery, but they're not going to do it until and unless we demand it. -- Kevin Bales the 4th right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is that there can be no slavery. Virtually every human being agrees that it is a moral wrong. Those key battles are won by people who went before us, who had the really tough job. Our job is simply to make sure that countries enforce their own laws and that slaves, when freed, have an opportunity for rehabilitation, reintegration, education, and so forth -- Kevin Bales

* "Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom." -- Harry Belafonte

* None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. -- Pearl S. Buck

* “We are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history.” -- Charlotte Bunch

* The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure. -- Ralph J. Bunche

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
-- Edmund Burke

* "Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life..." -- Jimmy Carter

* There are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by public opinion. -- Carrie Chapman Catt

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. -- Noam Chomsky

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
-- Richard Cobden

“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.” -- Norman Cousins

* "Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free." -- 14th Dalai Lama Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. -- Dalai Lama * Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.-- 14th Dalai Lama

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
-- Clarence Darrow

* it is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance. -- Ossie Davis it is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance. And democracy is no easy path, but those of us who believe in it must be prepared to sacrifice in its cause more willingly than those who are prepared to die in the wars of aggression. We, too, must be dedicated to the cause of freedom. -- Ossie Davis

* I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. -- Simone de Beauvoir

* “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.” -- Johnny Depp

“The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unshakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.” -- Jean Dominique You cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting for. -- Jean Dominique

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. -- Frederick Douglass, 1857 * Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. -- Frederick Douglass

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” -- W. E. B. DuBois * There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. -- W. E. B. DuBois

* A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. -- Bob Dylan * "How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free..." -- Bob Dylan

 

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