I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.― Charlotte Brontë

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

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If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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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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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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Your true purpose is to become your own unique self, and to do so with happiness and freedom from fear. ― Bryant McGill

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Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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That government is best which governs least. — Henry David Thoreau

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