Freedom
What Threatens Boulder’s Place As the BEST SMALL CITY?
Year after year, Boulder is hailed as one of the most desirable places* to live in the United States and in the world.
What makes Boulder so desirable?
Boulder’s obvious appeal is the majestic beauty of nature. Over the years, this natural playground has attracted people who were free to live anywhere, and they chose Boulder. Boulder is a place where people are free to express themselves, free to research, free to innovate, free to trade, free to associate, and free to live as they choose. Many Boulderites became entrepreneurs, innovating new products and services that promoted lifestyles of health and wellness. Boulder’s nature-nurturing, health-conscious, free people chose to protect this beautiful landscape with an innovative greenspace that ensures the beauty of Boulder for years to come.
But today, Boulder is facing challenges.
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Freedom
/ˈfrēdəm/ noun
1. the ability to pursue happiness and to create the life of one’s dreams.
2. the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
3. absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
4. the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
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Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
~ Bob Marley
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Freedom causes innovation, health, wealth, happiness
Freedom and the innovation it fosters continue to elevate billions of people from soul-crushing poverty. When people are free to converse, free to innovate, and free to trade, good things happen.
Over the past 200 years, billions offree people have lifted themselves out of material and spiritual poverty.
Economist Deirdre McCloskeycalls this extraordinary flowering of human well-being “The Great Enrichment.” The Great Enrichment liberates people around the world from disease, war, racism, oppression, and ignorance to greater health, peace, justice, and truth.
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The only real prison is fear,
and the only real freedom
is freedom from fear.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi,
now serving in prison for failing to comply with COVID-19 restrictions
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Life without liberty is like a body without a spirit.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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Dreams are the foundation of America.
~ Lupita Nyong’o
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We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
~William Faulkner
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Freedom is the only tent
Big Enough for Everyone
The truth will roll over all obstacles like a glacier. No stopping it.
~ Scott Lehman
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Freedom cannot be bestowed;
it must be achieved.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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America is another name for opportunity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
LIFE
Freedom to learn, to grow, to flourish, to contribute, to work, to play, to create.
LIBERTY
Freedom to associate, to speak, to listen, to trade, to choose, to stand up.
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HAPPINESS
Freedom to pursue happiness, to dance, to love, to sing, to adore, to lift up.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of America — that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea – and what an idea it is: that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from, but where you are going. ~ Condoleeza Rice
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
~ Albert Einstein
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. ~ Herbert Hoover
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains,
but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
~ Nelson Mandela
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Freedom cannot be bestowed;
it must be achieved.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing.
To depend on nothing.
~ Ayn Rand
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May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please,
but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~ Peter Marshall
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Freedom is not worth having
if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom lies in being bold.
~ Robert Frost
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Is freedom anything else
than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else.
~ Epictetus
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Those who won our independence valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
~ Louis. D. Brandeis
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FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
The goal of Free Boulder is to inspire and facilitate
the continuation of freedom in Boulder and beyond.
Free Boulder’s mission is to promote: