Question

What is the ideal of freedom?

Answer 1

Answer:

While concepts of freedom are many and varied, the ideal of freedom itself is one which awakens a response in every human being. Such a universal innate response, however instinctive or unconscious, points to the fundamental fact that true freedom is the birthright of man. The history of humanity records the struggle for freedom, political and economic, social and religious, of nations and communities, groups and individuals. The most shameful and tragic pages of history are those that depict acts of tyranny and oppression, of persecution and enslavement, of man's inhumanity to man. These invariably give rise to opposition and to rebellion too often marred in turn by vindictive retaliation, violence, and human slaughter. But one thing is certain: the conscience of mankind cannot be silenced for long and human thought will ever struggle to be free, for freedom is man's undeniable birthright.