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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Today's 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.