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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430828" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Freedom XIV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And an orator said, &quot;Speak to us of Freedom.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their won pride? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q>
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At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, 

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