Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Interpretation
True freedom is the ability to think and act independently, especially for those with differing views.
Rosa Luxemburg's quote emphasizes that freedom cannot be selectively applied; it must encompass all individuals, even those who hold contrary opinions. Genuine freedom is defined by the capacity to express and support dissenting thoughts and ideas, as it is this very diversity of thought that allows society to flourish and progress.
In practice
In a debate about social justice, one might cite this quote to emphasize the importance of protecting minority viewpoints.
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
I have not asked for life._x000D_ But I try to accept whatever_x000D_ life brings without surprise._x000D_ And I shall depart again without having_x000D_ questioned anyone about my strange_x000D_ stay here on earth.
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.
Weβre only here for a short while. And I think itβs such a lucky accident, having been born, that weβre almost obliged to pay attention.
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