From fear to freedom
Even the most brainwashed individual can find liberation
For most of those who have lived their entire lives in fear, this feeling will be experienced only when their society is free, when they feel it is safe to go to the town square and express their views without fear. But it will be no less exhilarating. I am certain that this feeling of exhilaration transcends race, religion, creed, and culture and that the drug of freedom is universally potent. I am equally certain that once a people live in freedom, the vast majority of them will never want to live in fear again. To suggest, as the skeptics do, that the majority of a people would freely choose to live in a fear society is to suggest that most of those who have tasted freedom would freely choose to return to slavery.
From the book The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky. Copyright (c) 2004. Reprinted by arrangement with Public-Affairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group. All rights reserved.
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