“Peace means nothing without freedom.”
Source: Kingdom of the Wicked
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“Peace is meaningless without freedom.”
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Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 20 (p. 514)
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
"Putting First Things First", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) American academic
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“Peace with justice means extending a hand to those who reach for freedom, wherever they live.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)
Context: Peace with justice means extending a hand to those who reach for freedom, wherever they live. Different peoples and cultures will follow their own path, but we must reject the lie that those who live in distant places don’t yearn for freedom and self-determination just like we do; that they don’t somehow yearn for dignity and rule of law just like we do. We cannot dictate the pace of change in places like the Arab world, but we must reject the excuse that we can do nothing to support it.
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
As quoted in Vietnam: The Betrayal of a Revolution https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/10/20/vietnam-the-betrayal-of-a-revolution/baef22ef-5ee7-43f0-97d3-7dc02ab24533/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.865c3958cb61 (20 October 1991), by Bui Tin
“…Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”
Anders Chydenius (1729–1803) Swedish politician
For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?, 1765.
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) American singer and songwriter
"Me and Bobby McGee" another of her greatest hits, the song was actually written by Kris Kristofferson, and first released as sung by Roger Miller
Misattributed
Context: Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free...
And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues.
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
Wahiduddin Khan (1925) Islamic Scholar
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, quoted by P.V. Rao, The thinking theologist, Indian Express, 7.1.1996, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.99