There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
With this crazy lifestyle, you have to think of places where you can still have your freedom.
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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