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What does it mean?
Freedom is hard to achieve and often requires enduring severe hardships repeatedly.
In plain terms
Achieving freedom is difficult and involves facing dangerous challenges many times.
What can you take from it?
Be prepared for hardship on the path to freedom.

Where it applies

  • political movements
  • social change
  • personal growth

Putting it to work

  • prepare for obstacles
  • stay committed
  • expect challenges

Questions to consider

  • What hardships are you facing today?
  • Are you ready to endure more?

Another view

This view may underestimate the possibility of peaceful or easier transitions.

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  3. I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

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