The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. ― John F. Kennedy

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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ― Frank Herbert

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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. ― Rosa Parks

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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

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There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. - Gary Ackerman

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