Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is…

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

1961

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Nature of freedom Liberation Freedom

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1961

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James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

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