are you a free person, a free mind... do you know what freedom is?
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Freedom is the only value I have, understand and will protect at any cost. I feel u share similar points of view to a life.\nThere is a freedom! Even a prisoner has got one if he wants to, your mind is free and one can stop u thinking until u're dead.
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I think if our plan is to "educate" them, we might consider that we have been in a state of near continuous war for centuries. How is imposing our values ethical or moral really valid.\nI also wonder how truly free we are. We do have freedom of thought, we just don't have the freedom to vocalize it. Maybe on paper. Maybe we are free relative to being in bondage, but by its pure definition are we really free?
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There is such a thing as free will but it's our conscious that prevents us from doing all we want to do.  One’s own conscious is one’s free will.  You will only do what your inner being will allow you to do!
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i can't answer the question for you, because it has different meaning to all of us.. but to give you a hint... if you are free to choose.. can you choose not to...?? can you not be part of the whole play we are playing.. if you can just get out and not play with us.. then you are free.. and free indeed.. if you don't know how to stop playing.. then...wear your helmet and hold your stick tight baby.. because it is a pumpy ride...
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Rights must be defended -- but intelligently;  although in some situations it may be wise to voluntarily refrain from exercising some rights for a time...\nFirst step is to think.  What is freedom?  Is it the freedom to do what you want, or the freedom to do what is right?  Which freedom(s) have you been able to exercise previously that you cannot exercise now?  Does the exercise of this right infringe in any way on anyone else's right(s)?\nSecond step is to determine the appropriate approach.  Do you air the issue in the public forum and make people aware that way, and possibly make people think you're a bit of a lunatic?  Or do you take the approach championed by Gandhi, M.L.King, Thorough, and others, which is to protest an unjust law by breaking it and accepting the consequences, thus demonstrating a mature respect for the rule of law.\nAgain, defend our rights, but do it wisely.
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Me? Absolutely none.\n\nThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin\n\nOne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)\n\nIf you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)\n\nGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington\n\nThe true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)\n\nThe evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)\n\nThe best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone. – Thomas Rudmose-Brown\n\nI should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. – Alexis De Toqueville\n\nThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken
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I'd have to disagree a bit with the above answerer. Freedom and liberty are two seperate things, A King for example has total freedom, but only when he extends that freedom to his subjects would it become liberty. Liberty is also accepting that others may choose to exercise their freedom in ways you may disagree with, and it's in that accepting of differences where the meaning of that phrase is rooted.
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Drinking in the streets and smoking in bars is what you call freedom?\n\nNo - freedom is knowing that you can express yourself any way you want that does not harm others, can express any idea that you want, can worship in any way that you want, can go anywhere you want without documentation, can be as you want to be without fear of authorities detaining you or seizing your possessions without cause as defined by law.\n\nYes, America is the most free country in the world - but too few Americans use these freedoms, and that is probably what you realized when you were here.  It's this fact that most threatens the freedom we have.\n\nNote to American readers: Freedom does NOT include a right to NOT be offended.\n\n[ADDED] Seeing your details.... Look, if you're saying the US isn't free, I disagree, and my reasons are stated.  But if you're trying to start a pissing contest about who is freer - US or UK - screw the argument; both are free, OK?
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If you give up freedom for security, you'll end up with neither.  This is paraphrasing a statement made by that Ben Franklin guy several years ago :)  I think it's true, though.  Who cares if you are safe, if you have no freedom? If I locked you up in a box and kept you under my bed, I could totally protect you and keep you safe from everything... but would it be worth it?
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freedom is to feel free in what you want to do and say without hurting others, then you are free otherwise you are not free to hurt others. also there are sensitivity variations between people. in other words what you feel is normal possible to hurt other more senstive people.so freedom restricted on your own things not other's things. and ask yourself before saying anything under whatcalled freedom do you accept others if hurt you under the same word?\nregarding justice, simply like for others what you like for yourself.\nregarding democracy, is discussion to get a final decision most people agreed for it
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freedom means f+r+e+e+d+o+m
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Do you mean "peace of mind" or a "piece of someones mind"?\nEither way, we are kind of stuck in this human dance of disagreeing and agreeing, testing and contesting.  But we usually move forward anyway.  Nice, that way.
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Yes!  Ofcourse it is!  FREEDOM.....Happy Birthday USA!  I am fortunate to be an American and proud of it!  So celebrate it!
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And how much do you know about Islam??? Lots enough for you to talk about something that indeed you have very less knowledge about it???\n   Many people all over this world talk about freedom including free to be muslim, christian, budhist and so on. But how many of us respect every single person's right to be in which religion they want to? Including respect their faith and beleive. For example, be careful in whatever issue that you want to raise.
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Personal independence is only a state of mind. People will never be totally independent. I will always depend on a bus-driver whenever I have to travel, or on a doctor, when I'm ill. The point is what or who you want to be independent from, and work for that. When you're done, you've become independent from that thing or person, and you'll begin to fight for your independence from another thing or person. But it never ends.
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Only you can determine what you wish to do with your soul...if you wish to be free from it, you are. If you are still pulled to it, there are unresolved issues that only you can deal with. Happy Journey.
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I am free to choose. How will I react to things, how I will I act, how will I dream, how will I think and how will I feel. It can be as complex or as simple as that.