What Does It Means To Be Free

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What does it mean to be free? Well the definition if freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. This means that you do what you want like practice religion or bear arms. And you have the right to speak what you want like saying i don't like the president. And you have the right to think as you want if you think doing something a better way you have the right to do that.

I think the biggest part of freedom is the right to act. I think it's important for people to have some control over what they do. For example in the Censors by Luisa Valenzuela, the main character Juan gats a letter from his friend in Paris he decides to write a letter back but fears that the censors will capture his

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