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Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

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Frank Lloyd Wright is saying that true freedom in America must apply equally to every person, regardless of their wealth. If this equality doesn’t exist, then democracy becomes a tool that traps people in a rigid system, forcing them to accept it without question.

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