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Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only becaus

Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Thurgood Marshall

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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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Heres a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently. – Benjamin Carson

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I dont look so closely at womens fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves. – Tadao Ando

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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. – James Bovard

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Freedom

They wont break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. – Bobby Sands

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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. – Charles Schumer

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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. – Anwar Sadat

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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up. – Ellen Goodman

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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