{"quotes":[{"text":"When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["bird","birds","birds-and-freedom","freedom","freedoms","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","pure","sky","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","winds"],"id":51685,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Censorship is alive and well in America.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["america","american","biased","bill-of-rights","censor","censored","censorship","congress","corrupt","corruption","democracy","democratic","dissent","freedom","freedom-of-speech","freedoms","hypocrisy","hypocritical","illusion","illusions","liberty","liberty-of-man","media","political","politics","senate","slanted","truth","undemocratic","united-states","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":214739,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["civilised","civilised-society","freedom","freedom-of-choice","freedoms","happiness","happiness","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","interfere","interference","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","wear","wearing","wearing-clothes"],"id":248054,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["democracy-fails","freedoms","government","morality","responsibility","rights"],"id":274134,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["black-and-white","colorless","freedom","freedom","freedoms","lifeless","murat-ildan"],"id":281663,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["dead","deprived","freedom","freedom","freedom","freedom","freedoms","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":286965,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"You know when it comes to who should govern themselves, we have old people talking around tables,” Jimmi says. “When you throw religion into the mix, you have a whole new set of problems. You can't say one has nothing to do with the other because that is simply not true. You have to change the government before we set religious freedoms. People like Firo and Clavis, they just don't want to suppress people. They want wealth and power. It's hard to find those who don't.","author":"Celia McMahon","tags":["freedoms","power","wealth"],"id":298882,"author_id":"Celia+McMahon"},{"text":"...The freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.","author":"Kevin Alan Lee","tags":["arms","constitution","freedom","freedoms","gun-control","guns","liberty","political-science","politics","rights","united-states-of-america","usa","weapons"],"id":375442,"author_id":"Kevin+Alan+Lee"},{"text":"It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["choices","choosing","consequences","freedoms","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","right-and-wrong"],"id":442921,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["fascism","fascismo","freedom","freedoms","government","media","media","media","murat-ildan","opression","regime","sick","sick-mind"],"id":451072,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}