Ilyas KassamFreedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination
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Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination. This quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
is about how to live as a free person rather than as a slave. We are all slaves to something, whether it is fear or greed or materialism. If we can overcome those forces that enslave us then we will find true freedom and be able to co-exist with others.
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