Fighting For Freedom Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for centuries, by the Mughals, the Russians, their own people, so they have always had to fight for freedom... we cannot take away the context. But they legitimised it by using jihad, a religious sanction, so they could be seen as mujahids, fighting for Allah. And you cannot say there is nothing concrete.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Religious, Fighting, Gun

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

  John F. Kennedy

  Army, Fighting, Imagination

  "Letter to the United States Army". April 11, 1962.

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• Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.

  Ilana Mercer

  Fighting, Gay, Blood

  "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag". www.wnd.com. November 7, 2013.

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• We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

  Sam Rasoul

  Fighting, Liberty, Lgbt

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