Freedom and liberty are synonymous. They are exactly the same.
One merely is a Germanic word and one a Romance word.
I wouldn't suggest you doing your essay on that. Anything you could say would just be bullshit.
Instead of that, how about writing about the vagueness of those words.
Think about it.
Protestantism and the puritans wanted religious freedom, but they were racists, antisemitic, sexists, and hierarchical.
America allegedly fought for freedom, but this was only economic freedom and the war was only backed by a third of the population.
The French Revolution is supposed to be an icon of freedom, nevertheless this was merely rhetoric, and the masses who fought for this cause were not only used as cannon fodder but also repressed and killed by Robespierre.
The Bolshevik Revolution was to be the ultimate emancipation of the worker classes, and yet their economic and social shackles were replaced by those of an impersonal bureaucracy.
Most first wave feminists couldn't have cared less for the problems of black women or latino women.
Martin Luther King was a homophobe.
If one does not fight for total liberation, one is not fighting for liberation at all.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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