Political Freedom

Freedom is the capacity for self-determination or the expression of the personal or communal will.

What freedom is not

Freedom is not a right, nor is it a privilege. Rights are the legal barriers for the state from interfering in person's life, however, these rights can often be suspended under some circumstances (such as war, terrorist attack, or natural disaster). Privilege is something that is normally practices only by a few persons, at the expense of others.

Forms of freedom

• Freedom to (do something yourself)
  • freedom of speech
  • freedom of the press
  • freedom of religion
  • freedom of association
  • freedom of movement
  • freedom of thought
• Freedom from (having something done against you)
  • freedom from discrimination
  • freedom from coercion
  • freedom to live without fear
  • freedom from physical violence

Sayings on freedom

• "Eλευθερος γ θανατος" (Freedom or Death!)
  —Cretan War cry.
• "Give me Liberty or give me Death!"
  —Patrick Henry
• "Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
  —Mikhail Bakunin in The Red Association (1870)

Freedom in other languages

Spelling (original)	English transliteration	Language
	hooroeah	Arabic
askatasun libertate		Basque
frihed		Danish
vrijheid		Dutch
frælsi		Faroese
vapaus		Finnish
liberté		French
freiheit		German
Eλευθερος	eleftheria	Greek
libertÃ		Italian
kebebasan		Indonesian
自由	jiyū, ziyû	Jananese
libertas		Latin
uhuru		Nigerian
frihet		Norwegian
liberdade		Polish
liberdade		Portuguese
libertate		Romanica
свобода воля	svoboda volya	Russian
libertad		Spanish
frihet		Swedish
آزادى	azaadi	Urdu