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Quote by Wendell Willkie
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this questi

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. – Wendell Willkie

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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. – Wendell Willkie

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Flying
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Wendell Willkie
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. – Wendell Willkie

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Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. – Jonathan Kozol

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Punk is musical freedom. Its saying, doing and playing what you want. In Websters terms, nirvana means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and thats pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. – Kurt Cobain

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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. – James Anthony Froude

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Freedom

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. – Benjamin Cardozo

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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybodys house. – Al Sharpton

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I dont think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. Its essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. – Margaret Atwood

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