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The Government may imprison me, it can fling hundreds and thousands into jail and concentration camps, but it cannot and it will not suppress the demand for freedom.
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The speaker distinguishes between the Government’s power to imprison people and its inability to erase their demand for freedom. Jail and concentration camps may restrain individuals, but they do not remove the desire for liberty or stop people from expressing it. The statement presents freedom as a demand that coercion cannot successfully suppress.
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