Fighting For Freedom Quotes - Page 3

• I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fighting, Men, Behavior

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

  Howard Dean

  Tired, Fighting, Wings

  Fundraiser for the Maine Democratic Party at the Lewiston Armory, October 22, 2005.

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• I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, America, Algeria

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Class, Republican

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fighting, Pride, Trouble

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

  Doc Hastings

  Commitment, Fighting, Justice

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• We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

  Anthony Eden

  Fighting, Europe, Long

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (2005). “The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957”, p.167, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Jail, Parks

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• I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Father, Fighting

  "Q&A with George Papandreou". Interview with Nicole Itano, papandreou.gr. April 12, 2010.

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• The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.

  Jewel

  Lying, Fighting, Intelligent

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• I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Fighting, Thinking, Congress

  "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  Gail Collins

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• ... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

  Edward Said

  Attitude, Fighting, Reality

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