Liberty: Collective Movement

Liberty is acquired through will and perseverance, however, it can also be taken away, and forces people to fight to keep it as well. That was what Patrick Henry states in his speech, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”, to the Virginia Convention. He argues that the leaders of America are not taking control and responsibility for what is really going on, and demands that something must be done to finally conquer the beloved goal of independence from Britain. This speech raises many ideas of what liberty really is, and how some people view the term liberty different from one another. Arguments can be made on the question of what is

Being free is symbolically constituted in your humane human head as it searches for, or listens for a good reason to do something and a plan for taking action to make it be or not be.

Freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or resistance, that is what we don’t have right now. Our lives have been hard,we are often tempted to give up and not press forward, but we are not quitters, all of us together are going to fight until we have moved on.My poor family will be Britain’s slaves if our American troops do not try. All of our colonies sleep together snuggled in a little cabin like hut , it is not the perfect little dreamhouse, all snuggled up together in a warm, comfortable bed, no, we did it the harder way.

The definition of “liberty is the condition of being free from restriction or control or the right and power to act believe or express oneself of one's own choosing.” (Merriam webster) What this means is to be free and not to be forced to do things against your will. Liberty to me means freedom over your own body and

Our basic rights are protected from physical restraint and the government cannot take away or get involved with. I believe that liberty gives equals to all men and women and that they all have the same opportunities to do things. Through liberty, no one should be discriminated for his or her race, beliefs, or ideas. Quote:

Liberty refers to the state of an individual being free and not conforming to the oppressive restrictions placed by the authorities that seek to demand one’s behavior, their way of life, and political views. In simpler terms, liberty refers to the power an individual has to act as they please. Social order, on the other hand, refers to a set of social structures, customs, relations, institutions, and values meant at conserving or

I think that a free person has the capacity to control all aspects of their life, but are sometimes limited or influenced by the society and environment that surrounds them. For example, during the time Douglass lived, he might have not been able to control where he lived or the amount of money he made after being freed since it would be harder for him than for a white person to find a decent job. He might have not been able to socialize with some people just because he was once a slave. The same thing, more or less, happens nowadays. The economy controls what jobs we have, where we can afford to live or what we can afford to do. It also influences the people we interact with. Since the world is filled with social

We read about freedom, dream about freedom, rejoice in the notion of freedom, and hope for freedom, but what do we mean by freedom?

Freedom is a key factor of our lives that everyone strives for. It creates a sense of peace within our minds and allows us to expand our horizons. Freedom is not only a physical attribute but an eternal one. To achieve freedom within ourselves is a long and treacherous path that each human must go through. The goodness in one's heart is needed to accept your life's journey. Through perseverance, kindness and self-knowledge the pursuit of goodness becomes the key to personal freedom.

Liberty is defined as “the quality or state of being free.”[Merriam-Webster Dictionary] The idea of being free has been important to many people throughout the years, even to the extent that wars would be waged over how liberty should be handled. Nevertheless, over the course of hundreds of years, no country has been considered as synonymous with liberty as America has. Not only was America founded by seceding itself from England, but America’s national anthem refers to itself as “the home of the free.” Also, one of the most populous states in America, New York, annually attracts tourists to its Statue of Liberty. Although America’s freedom from England is how the majority of people view the relationship between liberty and America, the

What is human freedom? What is required to be free? What freedoms are limited, either fairly or unfairly? Which is more freeing, the socialist freedom from worry that comes with work for the whole? Or the Libertarian freedom from governance that comes with the responsibility to provide basic needs without help? Freedom is a complicated topic because of the mix of personal responsibility and needs that may impede freedom without outside help. For example, can a person who has lost the use of their legs be truly free without a wheelchair or prosthetic to restore the freedom of mobility? Is freedom simply living without outside interference or is it something more? The answers are more complex than they may seem. Freedom requires lack of control, can not work with government, and works on different levels for all people.

Under the Declaration of Independence, which was written in the year of 1776, it states that “…all men [are] endowed … certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happyness” (Independence Hall Association). What does it mean to have liberty or freedom? Freedom can be expressed differently based on the person 's experiences. This is not the case when someone has everything. Freedom becomes the opposite and people become slaves to their own thoughts. In Gulliver’s Travels (GT) by Jonathan Swift, The Known World (TKW) by Edward P. Jones, and in Remainder by Tom McCarthy, these authors demonstrate the power of the mind to enslave someone who would be seen as free based on their size, color, status, and wealth.

To become “free” one must understand what being “free” means? The sense of being “free” is having knowledge or a particular skill that can never be taken from an individual once that knowledge is committed to memory, therefore, using one’s knowledge or skill in a meaningful way to push oneself forward is what causes them to achieve “freedom.” Also, another aspect of being “free” is moving pass limitations that restrains one from realizing their ambitions. Memorizing something for the moment, for instance, the answer to a question, a series of numbers, or a particular co-workers name so one can tell them happy birthday doesn’t contribute to granting that individual “true freedom.” Likewise, doing something that doesn’t line up with an individual’s ambition could cause them “imprisonment” rather than “freedom.”

The idea of liberty, or freedom, varies between different theorists. One theorist, Isaiah Berlin, focused on the difference between two different ways of thinking about political liberty (Cherniss & Hardy, 2010). Berlin called these two different concepts negative and positive liberty. According to Berlin, negative freedom can be defined as ‘freedom from’, that is, freedom from constraint or interference of others. In contrast, positive freedom can be defined in two ways: ‘freedom to’, that is the ability to pursue and achieve willed goals; and also as autonomy or self-rule, as opposed to the dependence on others (Cherniss & Hardy, 2010). Keeping the idea of positive liberty at

By contrast, “the ‘positive’ sense of the word ‘liberty’ derives from the [individual’s] wish … to be his own master” (178). Exponents of positive liberty focus on internal factors rather than external actors by painting the self as essentially divided, typically into a higher and lower self. The higher of these selves, distinguished perhaps by rationality or length of outlook, represents in some sense the true realization of an individual’s potential, nature, or entity. This being is marked by possessing full self-consciousness, bearing full responsibility for one’s choices, and not being a slave to one’s nature or “unbridled