learned learned again and again that
"The essence of liberty
has always lain
in the ability
to choose as you wish to choose,
because you wish so to choose,
uncoerced,
unbullied,
not swallowed up in some vast system;
and
in the right to resist,
to be unpopular,
to stand up for your convictions
merely because they are your convictions.
That is true freedom,
and without it
there is neither freedom of any kind,
nor even the illusion of it."
Isaiah Berlin
(6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997)