liberty
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Tisa Wenger, a professor of American religious history at Yale Divinity School, said religious liberty has long been understood as “an all-American ideal that many Americans are very proud of.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Fidel was for my generation of Latin Americans a living symbol of the struggle for social justice, liberty and sovereignty,” former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Last year, President Donald Trump tapped him to lead a new commission on religious liberty.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
It democratizes constitutional enforcement because it poses the simplest and most urgent question: Does the state have actual grounds to take away this person’s liberty?
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Patterson and editor Patrick J. Smith interweave scenes of intrigue and shocking violence, take liberties with Amziah’s storytelling asides and give us barn-burning musical sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Visitors are left to reconcile a history of gradually expanding rights and liberties with that portentous coda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Civil liberties campaigning group Big Brother Watch slammed the live facial recognition expansion as an "alarming escalation of an intrusive technology".
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Much of the concerns raised so far about the proposals have been about civil liberties and government overreach.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The country’s legal system would guarantee equality before the law, and a bill of rights would be drawn up to protect civil liberties.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing liberty
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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The Bill of Rights
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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