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“Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.”

Wells Hate Freedom Space Liberty Break Air Rounds Spread Breathe Graves Native Cracks Horizon Break Through Domes

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!”

Men Ideas Hate Three Speak Freedom Stupid Expression Fool Circumstances Honour Three Things Freedom Of Expression

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

Ifs Hate Freedom Principles Constitution Agree Libertarian Attachment Libertarianism Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Limited Government Limited Freedom Free Thought Free Expression Supreme Court Justice

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

Hate Politics Freedom Common Forever Honest Honesty Office I Hate Favors Common Sense Decency Public Office Running For Office Common Decency

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.”

“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.”

Way Love Hate Freedom Loss Liberty Opening Those We Love

Book:One World

Source: One World

“Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.”

Hate Freedom Democracy Poison Retaliation Nectar Alone In Love

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?”

People Christian Hate Names Freedom White Race Islam Civil Rights Domination White Supremacy Supremacy Enslavement Plunder Hate Religion

Author:Muhammad Ali

“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.”

Men Years Ideas Hate Freedom Ought

Author:Vita Sackville-West