{"id":777,"date":"2011-07-18T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/devotion-to-freedom\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T01:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:46:37","slug":"devotion-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/devotion-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotion to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who takes away another man&#8217;s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else&#8217;s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. <\/p>\n<p>When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one&#8217;s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmoui.net%2Fblog%2F2011%2F07%2Fdevotion-to-freedom%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who takes away another man&#8217;s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else&#8217;s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,256,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-blog","category-justice","category-politics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"3":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"256":{"name":"Justice","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/justice\/"},"82":{"name":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/politics\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmP7-cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}