We look to the other side of the ocean to learn how a people which has known how to make itself free, knows how to preserve its freedom. " The assassination of Abraham Lincoln touched the imagination of America's writers.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

It can be understood as a source of new-found authority, of the freedom of one who has been characteristically not free and can be received by a reading community in those terms.

这可以被理解为一种新建立的权威和，一个特性上不自由的人的自由的源头,同时也可以被看做在这些领域里的一个阅读区。

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If we're arguing about hate speech, we could talk about the balance between the rights of the freedom of speech versus the right to a certain quality of education free of harassment and humiliation.

如果我们围线仇恨言论来争辩，我们就会谈到如何平衡,言论自由的权利,与接受高等教育,不受骚扰和羞辱的权利。

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But it says the broad anti-defamation measures being sought by the Islamic Conference would have the effect of curbing debate about religious issues and should be discarded in favor of outreach and government defense of religious freedom and free speech.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Individual freedom, although it has greatly elevated the condition of the people who have lived in free societies, inevitably permits inequalities which are the more galling, because each person is plainly free to try to improve his situation and largely responsible for the outcome.

个人自由的理念,虽然提升了自由社会中人们,的生活条件,但是不可避免的会产生烦恼和更多的焦虑,因为每个人都有极大的自由去,提升自己的生活状态,并对自己的所作所负有极大的责任

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