He was going to do this by considering human beings as they are and laws as they might be. Rousseau said, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." He believed that if one person acted as sovereign or lawgiver, then that lawgiver had the responsibility of acting in accord with the will of the people. Rousseau brings up a good point about freedom and that is "Just as the shepherd is superior in kind to his sheep, so, too, the shepherds of men, or, in other words, their rulers, are superior in kind to their peoples." The ruler of the sheep will guide them to greener pastures, but they have the freedom to do what they want when they get there.
Mary Antin shows intellectual freedom and personal liberty is evident in the reading of "The Promised Land." She was born to an affluent Russian Jewish family in 1881, and nothing could stop her hope for a new and better life in America. Her dream was for an education that her father said was free, and it was something no thief could ever take away. The promise of an education was a safer promise then the assurance of bread or shelter. Mary was thrilled with the realization of what this freedom of education meant. It was given to them without restrictions, no matter how they were dressed, with no examinations, rulings, exclusions; no machinations, no fees, no questions asked. The doors stood open for every one of them. The smallest child showed them the way to the school. The function of government is to provide free education for all citizens. All children should have the right to attend public school, and a free access to information without government restriction.
Emotional freedom is portrayed by the personal story of the immigrant Vo Thi Tam. Tam's emotional freedom was her pursuit of happiness. That freedom didn't come without many hardships and distresses. For her escape to freedom, she had to load all thirty-seven men, women, and children into the bottom of a thirty-five foot long fishing boat.
