Searle: What Freedom Means To Me

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What freedom means to me

Freedom can be defined in a countless number of ways. The way I describe freedom is exercising the action of speaking, thinking, and preaching whatever your heart desires. It also has to deal with your way searching for your kind of happiness. These four things need to go hand in hand to find the real definition of freedom. I believe that freedom is actually not free; we have to fight for it. ?But change would not mean rejection of the past. Like a tree growing strong through the seasons, rooted in the Earth and drawing life from the sun, so, too, positive change must by rooted in the traditional values?in the land, in culture, in family and community?and it must take its life from the eternal things from

The first, second, and 26th amendment say that we have the freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote. These three amendments show that we are able to think and speak whatever we believe. ?The key is freedom?freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication (Reagan 2).? ?Go into any courtroom, and there will preside an independent judge, beholden to no government power. There every defendant has the right to a trial by a jury of his peers, usually 12 men and women?common citizens; they are the ones, the only ones, who weigh the evidence and decide on guilt or innocence. In that court, the accused is innocent until proven guilty, and the word of a policeman or any official has no greater legal standing than the word of the accused. Go to any university campus, and there you?ll find an open, sometimes heated discussion of the problems in American society and what can be done to correct them. (Reagan 3).? You have the right to have a lawyer. You have the right to speak how you think it is. You have the right to make a choice, but with that choice you have a consequence, good or

Many years ago our ancestors left England and traveled to America because they were tired of being controlled and told what to do by England. One of the main reason they came to America was so that they could enjoy freedom to join any church they wanted and have no taxation without representation. They fought for these and other rights. any gave their lives for the freedom that we enjoy today. Another part of our plentiful freedom is freedom of the press. Both of these freedoms come from the first amendment. ?For this reason we have some right to consider ourselves a picked group, a group of those who had the courage to break from the past and brave the dangers and the loneliness of a strange land. What was the object that nerved us, or those who went before us, to this choice? We sought liberty ? freedom from oppression, freedom for want, freedom to be ourselves (American Day Address).? Many, many years ago people came from Europe, searching for something new and something that had to do with freedom. They wanted the ability to worship whatever God they wanted and to be able to say and whatever they wanted. ?But change would not mean rejection of the past. ?Go to any American town, to take just an example, and you?ll see dozens of churches, representing many different beliefs?in many places, synagogues and mosques?and you?ll see families of every