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Maya Angelou was an American poet memoirist and civil rights activist She published seven autobiographies three books of essays several books of poetry and was credited with a list of plays movies and television shows spanning over 50 years Fighting for one s freedom struggling towards being free is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done So you start all over again Angelou explains that It is not easy to get freedom you work so hard to get freedom each and every single day and it s always the same thing it s like starting off like if it s a new day not get any respect The idea of this quote is that we should have are freedom as debated in I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr speech Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Memoir and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury novel Those who will disagree with will say that they think this world is perfect we have freedom are liberty are independents It s understandable that freedom is been talked up between the years even up today and it is clearly important that freedom is really desire in this world because people are standing up for what they believe in standing up for what s right and standing up against censorship 1 Most notably Martin Luther King MLK was standing up for what he believed in and that was for his and everyone s freedom He want to change the world to make it into a better place we re nobody judge people by there skin color or how anyone looked like
