"Fascism’s perversion of freedom’s meaning demands a richer conception of liberty than mere absence of constraint. As Snyder observes, the American Right has historically defined freedom negatively as freedom from government, which originally served to prevent federal intervention against slavery and later against various forms of discrimination. The humanist tradition offers an alternative conception of freedom: not just freedom from constraint but freedom to flourish, to develop one’s capacities, to engage fully in democratic life." - Jonathan Simmons, "The Humanist Response to Authoritarianism"
The Many Lives of James Baldwin
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