“To be free is not an ideal/ But a concrete, specific commitment/ Commitment to a person, to a cause to an issue!”
Freedom: Foster It! p. 22.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)
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“Mutual commitment to ideals -- yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions -- no.”
Seventy faces: articles of faith (2002)
Sourced to the book, The Ascent of Man (1973), BBC Books: London, Chapter 13: The Long Childhood, p. 330.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
Context: We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.
“Commitment to great causes makes great men.”
"A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
Variant: Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Source: The Zahir
“[M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.”
June 11, 2001. "President Bush Discusses Global Climate Change" http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html.
2000s, 2001
“Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence.”
Fiji Live, 22 November 2005 http://www.Fijilive.com: Comments on the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill