Theme of Zoom Meeting: Freedom

Questions:
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Questions:

1. What does freedom mean to you?

2. What is the opposite of freedom?

3. What freedom do you treasure the most?

4. Does freedom come free or is it only achieved at great cost?

5. Can we have too much freedom?

6. What do you consider the greatest symbol of freedom? Why?

7. When, if ever, have you felt that your most important freedoms were threatened?

8. What can you do to make it less likely that you will ever lose your most treasured freedoms?

9. What person in our Country’s history has most represented freedom?

10. How have modern technologies such as the Internet affected your freedom?

11. How has the concept of freedom changed during your lifetime?

12. Would you rather be born poor in a democratic country or wealthy in a dictatorship?

13. Are some groups in our Nation paying a great price for freedom?

14. If you could get one new freedom, what would it be?

15. What would you rather have – great wealth or great freedom?

16. If you paint a picture of freedom, what would it look like?

17. How – if at all – has your attitude toward freedom been changed as a result of our discussion?

Quotations:

1. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

2. What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom? – Edward Abbey

3. The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.-Thucydides

4. The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off. – Gloria Steinem

5. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.--Denis Diderot

6. When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.—Charles Evans Hughes

7. While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.—Charles Evans Hughes

8. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.—Abraham Lincoln

9. May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.—Peter Marshall

10. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin

The End