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

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde

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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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Freedom lies in being bold. ― Robert Frost

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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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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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Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. - Diane Nash

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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

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