The Meaning Of Freedom

True freedom is not something that can be given. It is something that every single person must discover for themselves. If a person were set free, though still thought of themselves as a slave, they are a slave. America is a country that thrives on freedom. Though numerous people throughout the United States take this privilege for granted.

All around the world people talk about freedom; America has more freedom than Russia, twenty-one years old as more freedom than a fifteen year old. What does “freedom” mean? Many have different definitions of “freedom”. For some it could be the freedom to speak and act as you want and others it could be to go where ever you want.

Freedom means different things to various groups of people. For African Americans, freedom was being released from slavery and given the same rights that their white counterparts were allowed. For female suffragettes, freedom meant the right to vote, and to have a voice equal to the one that men had. Different groups have a different definition of what freedom means to them.

The power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. A word created by man to escape the bonds of tyranny to express the idea of what it means to persist one's own ambitions. Freedom. Freedom is not the absence of confinement but the will to achieve freedom when imprisoned. After carefully concluding the reading done over this semester one is able to clearly understand the confinement these early Americans felt and their decision to achieve a form of freedom. Freedom has always existed but it is the history of this nation that will define what actions freedom takes.

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” - Daniel J. Boorstin Freedom is something many in America take for granted. They don’t realize that there are still so many slaves in other countries. They wish they could be living the “American Dream”, unfortunately they can’t. Freedom

Freedom has been discussed for a while now and yet no one can agree it exists. The conflict over the meaning of freedom continues to exist from the civil war, throughout the sixties. The Civil War was fought over the question of what freedom means in America, for us in this present date to have freedom is being able to enter any public place whenever you want without being told you cannot enter, also not having to worry if you are going to be arrested if you enter the wrong restroom or don’t give up your seat to a white person. For more than a century African Americans demanded and fought for freedom; progressive freedom. African American wanted equality that gave them voting rights, civil rights, education and public health. Some of the most

In the United States of America, freedom is a common right that is often taken for granted.Freedom is the hardest right that exists not very many countries get to say that in their Constitution it states that everyone has freedom.My favorite gift you have given me and my generation is freedom if it was not for you guys, minorities would have never been freed and women would have been still pouring scotch into their husband's glasses.

What does freedom look like? The definition of freedom varies. When I think of freedom three words come to my mind, which are liberty, independence, and equality. The subject of freedom is very important in the United States because it has been our nation is built on. We should all be thankful for our freedom and independence.

Freedom in America can have a lot of different meanings, but during the reconstruction era for the blacks it meant citizenship. Before the reconstruction era the blacks had no rights and were considered as slaves. Freedom to them meant escaping the injustices of slavery. For example, punishment by the lash, the separation of families, denial access to education, and sharing the rights and opportunities of American citizens.

Freedom , an important word in the United States of America. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, I am proud to be an American. In America we are free, we have the right to speak, there were tragedies and there might be more but you never know unless it happens. Freedom to me means that the government cannot tell you exactly what to do like a collective society, in a collective society the government runs every single thing, they give you the job that you will have for the rest of your life.

Freedom, some people take it for grant it, some people strive for it. Our country fought hard for it. Freedom means to me to is the right to do what you want. But we will never get full freedom because if we had full freedom people would do what they want and if people did what they want we would have conflict. With conflict people would fight each other because they would think the other person was doing something wrong and we don't want to have a Civil war. So our government has put limits on our freedom.

What is freedom? Is there a specific meaning to the word? Could the meaning be different for everyone? There is of course the obvious answer, where you might say that freedom is the essence of not being controlled by anyone. In the same way, you could reply by saying that freedom is having the ability to make your own choices. Both answers are correct in their own way. However, it could also be described in a very different manner if you were to ask Walt Whitman. A common theme is a lot of Whitman’s poetry is freedom; he observed the world around him, and had his own ideas of the true meaning of freedom. The definition of freedom may be simple to most people, but the true meaning is very deep, personal, and specific; it can never be explained, only experienced.

Freedom means living life as one wants, everything else is a form of slavery. If a person is not allowed to make his or hers decisions, if he or she is not free to live life as he/she wants than he/she doesn’t have power over his or her existence. If freedom was not essential for every human being than no one would have found so fiercely for it. If it was not important than today we would not be still fighting to keep and extend our freedom.

What is freedom? Is it an absolute, right? We are born to become free. Freedom is defined from different aspects, and according to different cultures, freedom varies from culture to another. Some define freedom as a natural right, the human being is born with. Everyone wants to be free and independent from others. Freedom is the right to do what one wants, live where he wants, eat what he wants, learns what he wants, and chooses the religion in which he believes, without ignoring or harming other rights.

Freedom: much like love is essential to life, a right given to all creatures as soon as they take their first breath, and most importantly; freedom, much like love, will always prevail. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. thoroughly understood the symbiotic relationship that freedom and love had on equality. Therefore, if Dr. King was still alive he would not advocate the revision Section 4 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 to include a new formula that would coerce a stronger watch of the federal government to states that were once offenders of equal opportunity as it pertained to voting. The sole reason why Dr. King would not advocate a revision of Section 4 is simple: he dedicated his entire life to forgiveness, peace, and using love to forget the