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Mikhail Bakunin

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

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My ability to be truly free depends on everyone else having freedom as well, because individual freedom is connected to the freedom of the whole community. If others are oppressed or restricted, my own freedom is limited by their lack of liberty.

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