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Famous Quote from Archibald MacLeish,

Freedom is the right to choose:
the right to create for oneself
the alternatives of choice.
Without the possibility of choice
and the exercise of choice
a man is not a man
but a member, an instrument,
a thing.



By:

Archibald MacLeish (more quotes by Archibald MacLeish or books by/about Archibald MacLeish)


(1892-1982) Poet, playwright, Librarian of Congress, & Assistant Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt

Source:

4 December 1937

Categories:

Civil Rights, Conscience, Freedom, Individual Rights, Liberty, Responsibility, Library

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