"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be"

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Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1957). “Autobiography”, Nelson

James A. Baldwin

#Inspirational Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Government Quotes

“I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.”
“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
“God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.”
“Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.' 'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?' 'She's three months.' 'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?”
“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.”
“Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adultsâ€”wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.”

Source : Bruce Campbell (2015). “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor”, p.317, Macmillan
“Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.”
“The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.”

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