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“I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”

“Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.”

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Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”

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Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.”

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Author:Andrei Sakharov

“To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.”

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Author:John Conyers

“To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.”

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Author:James H. Cone

“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”