RON HENGGELER

 

Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

 

Paris by Eugène Atget

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Let freedom ring. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

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Paris by Eugène Atget

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Bobby Seale

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Eugène Atget

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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Paris by Eugène Atget

 

Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

William Lloyd Garrison

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

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Paris by Eugène Atget

For 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

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan

 

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Ho Chi Minh

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

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Paris by Eugène Atget

 

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Emma Goldman

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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

John Adams

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

Vladimir Putin

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Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Paris by Eugène Atget

Paris by Eugène Atget

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

Jean-Paul Sarte

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Liberty Leading the People

by Eugène Delacroix