To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble
and beautiful end of a human being.
- Khalil Gibran
The end does NOT justify the means.
Freedom cannot be gained by sacrificing the freedom of others.
Free speech cannot be gained by limiting the free speech of others.
Human rights cannot be secured by trampling the human rights of others.
Viciousness in others cannot be fought by becoming vicious oneself.
Neither individual nor nation can long survive by meeting hatred with hatred,
injustice with injustice, prejudice with prejudice.
Freedom Demands Freedom for All
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
Further reading: Independence - Liberty - Freedom
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