Quote by Jonathan Sacks
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. – Jonathan Sacks

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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. – Jonathan Sacks

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Society
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What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. – Jonathan Sacks

Category:
Change
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. – Jonathan Sacks

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Future
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Freedom
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in mans heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. – George H. W. Bush

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Freedom

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. – Taslima Nasrin

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Freedom

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – lets say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Freedom

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. – Henry Charles Carey

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Freedom

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I see Turkeys future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. – Orhan Pamuk

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Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel

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Health

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. – Jo Godwin

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Libraries