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Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
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The quote says that freedom is incomplete when other people are still denied it. One person’s liberty should not be treated as enough if the wider community remains unfree. It presents freedom as something shared: nobody is truly free until everybody’s free.
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- Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office
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