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freedom: see liberty liberty, term used to describe various types of individual freedom, such as religious liberty, political liberty, freedom of speech, right of self-defense, and others. It is also used as a general term for the sum of specific liberties. ..... Click the link for more information. . Freedom See also Deliverance. Areopagitica pamphlet supporting freedom of the press. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 46] 1940s underground railroad for Jews out of East Europe. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 80] (1791) term popularly applied to first 10 Amendments of U.S. Constitution. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 78] (1948) declaration passed by the United Nations; the rights are the individual freedoms usually associated with Western democracy. [World Hist.: Payton, 186] (1776) document declaring the independence of the North American colonies. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 186] (1672) Charles II’s attempt to suspend discrimination against Nonconformists and Catholics. [Br. Hist.: Payton, 186] (1789) proclaimed legal equality of man. [Fr. Hist.: Payton, 186] widely used as national symbol. [Animal Folklore: Jobes, 213] epithet of Zeus, meaning “god of freedom.” [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 292] American independence day. [Am. Culture: Misc.] sobriquet of Abraham Lincoln. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 329] (1736–1799) famous American patriot known for his statement: “Give me liberty or give me death.” [Am. Hist.: Hart, 367] fiftieth year; liberty proclaimed for all inhabitants. [O.T.: Leviticus 25:8–13] symbol of British liberty. [Br. Hist.: Bishop, 49–52, 213] consolidated South American independence; stonewalled European intervention. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 329–330] presented to slaves upon manumission. [Rom. Hist.: Jobes, 287]
legendary pact establishing independence of Swiss cantons (1307). [Swiss Hist.: NCE, 2384] liberator of Rome from warring Colonna and Orsini families. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Rienzi, Westerman, 203] site of Magna Charta signing (1215). [Br. Hist.: Bishop, 49–52, 213] perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] effective means of escape for southern slaves. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 514] indicates independence. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] |
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| The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at. So far as I can now recall, the first knowledge that I got of the fact that we were slaves, and that freedom of the slaves was being discussed, was early one morning before day, when I was awakened by my mother kneeling over her children and fervently praying that Lincoln and his armies might be successful, and that one day she and her children might be free. But in the loneliest wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becometh a lion; freedom will it capture, and lordship in its own wilderness. |
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