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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
 - Thomas Jefferson

A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.
 - Malcom Reynolds

I judge people by their own principles, not by my own.
 - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
 - Emiliano Zapata

Age don't matter like
Race don't matter like
Place don't matter like what's inside
 - The War Inside, Switchfoot

And in searching for acceptance
They have given it away
Only the children of our children
Know the price they had to pay
  - Mary Black, Turning Away

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. \
 - Nelson Mandela

Responsibility is the price of freedom. 
 - Elbert Hubbard

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
 - Robert A. Heinlein

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall|Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. 
 - Pericles

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. - Coretta Scott King|You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. - Tertullian

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. - Clarence Darrow

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. - Arnold J. Toynbee

You can only be free if I am free. - Clarence Darrow

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. - Trent Lott

The night is so long when

                Everything's wrong
                If you give me your hand
                I will help you hold on - Skillet

Every tyrant who has lived has believe in freedom for himself. - Elbert Hubbard

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty, his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. - Aldous Huxley

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Only the strongest will survive

                Lead me to heaven, when we die
                I am the shadow on the wall
                I'll be the one to save us all - Breaking Benjamin

Persistence, resistance, one man can make a difference.

                The battle's inside of me, the fight's begun but not yet won
                And I won't become, one more casualty - Marty Casey & Lovehammers

And if strength is born from heartbreak

                Many mountains I could move
                And if walls could speak I'd pray
                That they would tell me what to do - Rise Against

Bet you've never seen the things that I've seen

                Bottled up inside this time
                Cause I'm taking back my life. - Adelita's Way, 'Invicible'

Never opened myself this way

                Life is ours, we live it our way
                All these words I don't just say
                And nothing else matters
                 - Metallica, 'Nothing Else Matters'

Right here, right now

                Stand my ground and never back down
                I know what I believe inside - Skillet, 'Awake and Alive'

Hell is still overburdened

                I must stand and wait in line
                I may never know for certain
                When will be my time
                How was I considered evil?
                Pleasures taken in this life?
                Someone granted me reprieval
                 Decades spent in strife - Disturbed, 'Overburdened'

So pick up and follow me we're the only ones

                To fight this thing until we've won
                We drive on and don't look back
                It doesn't mean wwe can't learn from our past
                All the thinggs that we mighta done wrong
                We could've been doing this all along
                

Everybody with the first raised high

                Le me hear your battle cry tonight
                Stand beside, or step aside
                We are the frontline. - Pillar, 'Frontline'

Maybe redemption has stories to tell

                Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
                Where can you run to escape from yourself?
                Where you gonna go?
                Where you gonna go?
                Salvation is here - Switchfoot, 'Dare You to Move'

Count your blessings and prepare to change your point of view

                All those days that you spend waiting won't come back to you
                Take off the glasses that have treated your world black and grey
                It doesn't get easy, don't you know - Delain, 'April Rain'

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. - Jessica Dovey