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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us" »Andrew Schneider
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"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." »Robert Jackson
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"freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." »Bergen
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear." »Rolland W. Schloerb
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"I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether." »Neil Postman
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"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity." »Unknown
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"Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement." »Federico Fellini
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." »Kierkegaard
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." »Socrates
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"The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion." »Kahlil Gibran
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"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." »Mark Twain
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"freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." »Benjamin Cardozo
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"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." »J. Krishnamurti
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"freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon
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"freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this freedom give big brother, the opportunity to dictate our way of life???" »Larry Levesque
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." »Erich Fromm
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"Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me" »Alisa Wells
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"Next in importance to freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield
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"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license." »John Milton
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"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you." »Paula Giddings
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"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." »Albert Einstein
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"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." »Thomas Jefferson
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