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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? — Betty Friedan
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction… — Nikki Giovanni
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. — Amiri Baraka
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… — Chief Joseph
We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom… — John Oliver Killens
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! — James Russell Lowell
We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting… — Malcolm X
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought… — Charles Alexander Eastman
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. — Alan Paton
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will… — Mary Robinson
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal… — Anita Roddick
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. — Gloria Steinem
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and… — Desmond Tutu
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not… — Lee Iacocca
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The… — Bernard Baruch
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said… — Ronald Reagan
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and… — Jimmy Carter
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses… — Grover Cleveland

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