As long as other people’s opinions matter more than your own, you’re owned by them. You’re not even free.
– Oprah Winfrey
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- A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
- A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. – Joseph P Sekula
- I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush. – Ellen DeGeneres
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- We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
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