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The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
-- Oscar Arias SanchezHope 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. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.
-- Oscar Arias Sanchez
“"Liberty and equality...will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost"
-- Aristotle
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
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. BuncheThe 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 CarterThe 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 LamaBrute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
-- Dalai LamaYou 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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
-- Simone de Beauvoir
“The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unshakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”
-- Jean DominiqueYou 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
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
cannot be permanently chained.
-- W. E. B. DuBoisThere 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
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