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What does it mean?
Freedoms are connected; harming one harms all freedoms.
In plain terms
All freedoms rise or fall together.
What can you take from it?
Protect one freedom to protect them all.

Where it applies

  • advocacy
  • legal defense
  • social movements

Putting it to work

  • defend minority rights
  • join coalitions

Questions to consider

  • Which freedom is at risk?
  • How are you connected?

Another view

It assumes all freedoms are equally valuable.

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