Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ― Virginia Woolf

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ― Epictetus

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

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The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.― Charlotte Brontë

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

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