### freedom:

Intellectual freedom
* allows people to believe, write, think and speak more effectively.
* cornerstone of librarianship.
* depends on economic rights because it species of economic rights.
* encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas.
* is essential to human society
  - everyone's issue
* is the ability to express all points of view
  - basis of democracy
  - light that pushes back the darkness on the plain of existence
  - most fundamental of our personal liberties
  - right of every individual
  - vital to public libraries and a free society
* prerequisite to full, fair, and equal access to information.

Liberty
* Liberties are freedoms from tyranny or foreighn dominations
  - can also play an important role in life
* is freedom
  - independence
  - rockets

### freedom | liberty:

Economic liberty
* infuses the spirit of political liberty.
* makes people rich.

Liberty of conscience
* is insanity
  - that which the church still finds it difficult to come to terms with
* is the most fundamental of all human rights, the pivot of all progress
  - natural right of communities, as well as of individuals
* right of man.

Natural liberty
* exists in the state of nature.
* is freedom from restraint, except so far as is imposed by the laws of nature.

### freedom | liberty:

Religious liberty
* basic and inalienable right founded on the inviolable dignity of the person.
* brings peace and justice.
* civil right.
* excludes any discrimination on the basis of religious affiliation
  - the attempt on the part of the government to define what a religion is
* fundamental human right
  - prerequisite of democracy and peace
* has both governmental and social aspects.
* involves the free and voluntary support of adherents of churches and religions
  - exercise of religion, both individually and in community
* is an inalienable right of every person
  - central to the gospel
* is one of the five great freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment
  - foundational freedoms of home schooling
  - perhaps the most basic of all American rights of all human rights
  - possible only where religion is strictly off limits for the government
  - the mother of civil liberty
* protects individual freedom of conscience.
* requires the real risk of social change.

Media freedom
* fundamental right that is included in the right of free expression.
* is also about desire to decrease the influence of media alltogether
  - restricted by the government

Moral freedom
* human being's own choice to be able to perform both good and evil at any moment.
* is, however, dependent in practice on political freedoms.
* meaningless concept in a universe where injustice no-no.
* requires at least the possibility of doing evil.

Personal freedom
* can give rise to all sorts of things like child sex rings
  - mean a lot of different things to different people
* comes from humans' basic instincts and natural selfishness.
* exists when any person can live free from coercion and intervention by others.
* flourishes in a framework of structure.
* is regarded as the gateway to public freedom
  - seen as the only right basis for following the spiritual path

Political freedom
* are even less protected than economic freedoms.
* favors peace, as do freer markets.
* is certainly an important criterion of human well-being
  - something on which the world now agrees, more or less

Press freedom
* cornerstone of human rights.
* is essential to building democracy
  - fundamental to democracy
  - guaranteed under the Macedonian constitution
  - one of the major building blocks in a democracy
  - restricted by laws and political pressures
  - the right that protects all other rights
* language journalists know by instinct.
* require a pluralistic economy with private ownership of the media.