Freedom means I may not be identified with any one group, but I can visit and find myself in every group. Freedom does not mean I don’t have values or beliefs. But it does mean I am not hardened around them. I do not use them as weapons.

Freedom cannot be bought or arranged or made with bombs or guards. It is deeper. It is a process. It is the acute awareness that we are all utterly interdependent. That economic injustice and inequity creates an environment of global despair and rage that, until balanced, will inevitably lead to hatred and violence.

Insecure At Last by Eve Ensler (197)