Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Where globalization means as it so often does that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival love and belonging power freedom and fun.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood as well as the power it can release in an individual.