Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
God tolerates even our stammering and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as indeed without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress behavior career and sexual orientation.
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation.
Even before I knew I was gay I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human social economic political and religious relationship.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.