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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

— Jose Marti

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

— J. William Fulbright

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

— Toussaint Louverture

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

— Saul Alinsky

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

— Nick Rahall

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

— Charley Reese

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

— Sukarno

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

— Euripides

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

— Ed Miliband

✗Opposing Perspectives

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

— Emma Lazarus