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I don’t to be a hybocrit and say "I just don’t belief what is the purpose of a protesset, but I actually find some of the ridicules .such as protesting for personal demanded ....
The problem that every time someone speech...We cut his or her right to express opinion...and when let them they go so extreme in imagination demanded...however the right to speek is something be there in our world .also the right to listen...

Four types of freedom

(1) Freedom from or negative freedom. Having no handcuffs -- being left alone. Freedom from direct physical constraints and the deliberate actions of other people. If a Singaporean law says you can't piss in elevators, that impinges on your freedom to piss in elevators.

(2) Freedom to or positive freedom. Understood in various ways. Here's three.

(i) Sometimes thought of (I think) as having the resources.

You're not free to fly to NY without the money. You're not free to be a rocket scientist without the education. You're not free to control your political destiny without access to information.

The "freegan" living on the street might be guaranteed a large number of rights, but he still doesn't have a dime in his pocket. The everyday person might in one sense possess "freedom of speech", but he/she doesn't have what Rupert Murdoch's got.

(ii) Sometimes thought of as any situation where you bind yourself to give yourself options -- ie, give up on freedom-from to gain freedom-to.

In being constrained by society (or institutions within it), you give up anarchic freedom to gain various benefits and opportunities.

Bob Brandom's example: When you say "This substance is copper", you bind yourself by linguistic norms, your words aren't free to mean anything whatsoever. You commit yourself to the melting point of this substance being 1084 degrees celsisus and not 1086, whether you realize it or not.

(iii) Sometimes thought of as realizing potentialities -- ie having a particular set of personal resources. You're not truly free unless you're developed, unless you have certain physical and mental capacities. The redneck is a prisoner of his ignorance. The McDonald's regular is a slave of his obesity.

I think Isaiah Berlin called this sort of freedom the thin edge of the wedge of totalitarianism. Once you start passing laws for mandatory once-a-week workouts, where does it end?

Compulsory education goes hand in hand with giving the state enormous power over you.

(3)Autonomy, being self-governing, authentic. Having authentic desires. Being true to your true self (which, incidentally, doesn't require that free will exist). Following the law you set for yourself, or the law your "higher self" or true nature might set.

Being addicted to smoking, or subject to indoctrination (by school, by advertising, etc), reduces your autonomy.

(4) Freedom from domination. Freedom from anyone having power over you, whether they exercise it or not. Freedom, also, from worrying about how that power is going to be exercised, what might provoke it, how to keep it from being exercised, etc.

Like living next to a superpower that has nuclear weapons when you do not -- you go out of your way to maintain good relations. Like being a character in a Kafka story, where you're subject to some arbitrary or illogical authority, the sword of Damascus dangling over your head, and you have no idea what the authority is going to do to you. Like living in East Germany when one in fifty people collaborated with the state police, and you constantly had to be on the lookout.

It's partly that there's always a threat of exercise, which limits your options (indirectly impinges on freedom-from). It's partly that this unclear worry uses up mental bandwidth, obsesses you, deforms you. And it's partly the simple fact of being in the power of another: you've got a leash around your neck, and no matter how far you run, you can always be jerked back in. Your freedom has bounds.

Proposed ID card laws, where information about you is collected into a single database -- it's sometimes said that you only need worry if you're a criminal -- to which it's sometimes replied that one should be careful whom one empowers -- machinery has been put in place for the state to exercise more control, whether it does so in benign way or not

freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi

The period from 1920 to 1947 had been described as the Gandhian Era in Indian Politics. During the period, Gandhi spoke the final word on behalf of the Indian National Congress in negotiating with the British Government for constitutional reforms, and for chalking out a programme for the national movement.

Mahatma Gandhi led the national freedom struggle against the British rule. The most unique thing about this struggle was that it was completely non-violent.

Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October, 1869 at Porbander in Gujarat. After finishing his early education in India, he sailed to England in 1891 and qualified as Barrister. In 1894, Gandhi went to South Africa in connection with a law suit.

The political career of Gandhi  started in South Africa where he launched a Civil Disobedience Movement against the maltreatment meted out to Asian settlers. In 1916, he returned to India and took up the leadership of National Freedom Struggle.

After the death of freedom fighter and congress leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak on August, 1920, Gandhi became virtually the sole navigator of the ship of the congress. Gandhi had whole heartedly supported the British during the 1st World War (1914-1919). The end of war, however, did not bring the promised freedom for India. So Gandhiji launched many movements to force the British to concede India its Independence. The well known being: Non Co-operation Movement (1920), Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) and Quit India Movement (1942).

The British passed the Rowlett Act in 1919 to deal with the revolutionaries. Gandhi made the Rowlett Act an issue and appealed to the people to observe peaceful demonstration on April 6, 1919. Gandhi's call for peaceful demonstration met with tremendous response. It led to mass demonstrations in Punjab and Delhi. The Jallianwala Massacre (1919) was a sequel of this agitation. The Indian people were shocked by the way the British conducted themselves. Gandhi them launched a non-co operation in 1920 against the British rule.

 On 12th March 1930, Gandhi started his Civil Disobedience with his famous 'Dandi March' to break the salt laws. Many leaders and persons courted arrest. Then followed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact for the participation of the congress in the Second Round Table Conference in 1931. On March 1942, Sir Stafford Cripps came to India with his proposals which were rejected by all political parties. The failure of the Cripps Mission led to unprecedented disturbances. Disillusioned and disappointed, the congress passed at Bombay the Quit India Resolution (August 8, 1942). The British were asked to leave India forthwith. The moving spirit behind the resolution was Gandhiji. The Quit India Movement was the greatest challenge to the British empire.

Gandhi was a great leader, a saint and a great social reformer. He was pious, truthful and religious. He believed in simple living and high thinking. Every body who came in contact with him were so deeply influenced by his personality. He was a Champion of democracy and was deadly opposed to dictatorial rule. Gandhi showed India and the World the path of truth and non-violence. He believed that it was truth alone that prevailed in the end. Gandhi believed that real India lived in more than five lakh villages uplift. According to him India's real emancipation depended on Swadeshi i.e. boycott of foreign goods, use of khadi encouragement to village and cottage industries.

Gandhi began to work day and night for the freedom of his country. He and his brave followers went to jail again and again, and suffered terrible hardships. Thousands of them were starved, beaten, ill treated and killed, but they remained true to their master. At last his noble efforts bore fruit and on August 15,1947, India became free and independent. Gandhi defeated the mighty British empire not with swords or guns , but by means of strange and utterly new weapons of truth and Ahimsa. He worked all through his life for Hindu- Muslim Unity and the abolition of untouchability. Gandhi worked hard for the upliftment of the Harijans, the name given by him to the untouchables. Gandhi declared untouchability a sin against God and Man.

Gandhi wrote his famous autobiography under the title 'My Experiments with Truth'. Gandhi always stood for communal harmony, but he himself was shot dead by a religious fanatic Nathuram Godse on 30th January, 1948. The whole World mourned his death.

Concluding Remarks: Some one had quipped: "If they had not thrown Gandhi out of the train in South Africa, the English would not have too much trouble from him." Gandhi, the young Attorney, vowed to oppose such unfair treatment- through non-co operation and other non-violent means.

Gandhi's ultimate search was for righteous conduct. The means are more important than the end, he maintained; with the right means, desired ends will follow. In time, he was proven right- almost always. His struggles and actions were but external manifestations of his struggle to evolve his own value system. Mahatma Gandhi better known as the father of Nation because it was he who got freedom for india. He was the maker of Modern India.

freedom meaning

1. The condition of being free of restraints.
2. Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.
3. Political independence.
4. Exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action; civil liberty: freedom of assembly.
5. Exemption from an unpleasant or onerous condition: freedom from want.
6. The capacity to exercise choice; free will: We have the freedom to do as we please all afternoon.
7. Ease or facility of movement: loose sports clothing, giving the wearer freedom.
8. Frankness or boldness; lack of modesty or reserve: the new freedom in movies and novels.
9. The right to unrestricted use; full access: was given the freedom of their research facilities.
10. The right of enjoying all of the privileges of membership or citizenship: the freedom of the city.
11. A right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference: "the seductive freedoms and excesses of the picaresque form" (John W. Aldridge).