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“If people are making fun of you then you’re probably doing something right.”-Amy Lee

“It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing.”-Terry Pratchett

“When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”-Carl Rogers

“I firmly believe in standing by what you are. I was never taught to dim my light to pacify other people.”- Iliza Shlesinger

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”-Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“Independence is happiness.”- Susan B. Anthony

“Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.”-Michelle Obama

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”-Charlotte Bronte

“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”-Maya Angelou

“Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.”-Kirsten Gillibrand

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Simple Sunday- Freedom

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”― Søren Kierkegaard

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”-Marian Wright Edelman

“America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.”-Alice Walker

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works – Volume XII

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”-Rosa Parks

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.