Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.

— David Graeber, U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961

Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.

— Unknown source

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

— Lord Acton, English historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902

A free society is a place where it’s safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. governor, ambassador, 1900-1965Perception: Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957Royalty: The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

— Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910Prayer -Religion: If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

— Steve Allen, U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000

The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

— Lord Dalberg-Acton, English politician and historian, 1834-1902

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968

Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others.

— Unknown Source

Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others.

— Unknown Source

Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.

— David Graeber, U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961

The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

— Sir John Dalberg-Acton, English historian and politician, 1834-1902

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— Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. politician and diplomat, 1900-1965

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

— Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

— Kathleen Norris, U.S. novelist and columnist, 1880-1966

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

— Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

— Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910

As I walked toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.

— Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

— Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963

The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of securitenjoyed by minorities.

— Lord Dalberg-Acton, English politician and historian, 1834-1902

Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny.

— Unknown source

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances – to choose one’s own way.

— Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

— Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

— Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1918-2008
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