He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant and, as soon as he’d been betrayed, they milled around a bit like barn-bred chickens who’ve seen the big world outside for the first time, and then they went back into the warm and shut the door... Terry Pratchett
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The quote is about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion. It is about freedom of all our rights to live as we want without being restricted or censored by other laws. Today many countries like to describe their system as democratic. However, the meaning of democracy is very different from what they claim.

The majority rules but not everybody can see this clearly. The ones who are not happy with the decisions made by the majority are told that their freedoms do not matter. When these people rebel they are called a tyrant and then they are arrested and jailed because the police consider them a threat to society.

So, if we have to fight for our freedoms, we have to fight for them during every single day of our lives.

Source: Feet Of Clay

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