Freedom:

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A condition requiring both the liberation from enslavement and a state of political interdependence with others who are also free.

—Hannah Arendt,  Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought (New York: The Viking Press, 1961), 143-172

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A two-sided word, used as: (1)  “a conquerer’s freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak,” or (2) “a black freedom” that is built on “we” instead of “I”

—Ta-Nehisi Coates, “I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye,” in The Atlantic: Web Edition Articles (USA), May 7, 2018

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"Freedom [. . .] You need me (need me)
And I need you (don't you know)
Without each other there ain't nothing people can do."

—Aretha Franklin, "Think," on Aretha Now (Atlantic Records, 1968)

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