I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I...

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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Winston Churchill

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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Mahatma Gandhi

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

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Thích Nhất Hạnh

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Benjamin Franklin

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

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Amy Tan

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

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Amy Tan

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

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Amy Tan

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

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Amy Tan

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

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Amy Tan

I was intelligent enough to ...

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