Culture
How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.
12 Years a Slave
The full horror of captivity and the price of freedom. Liberation as the thing that could not be extinguished even in slavery.
Selma
The march as liberation act - freedom claimed through organized, nonviolent resistance against violent repression.
Suffragette
Women's liberation through organized resistance. The cost of freedom when those in power have decided the question is already settled.
Braveheart
"They can take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom." Liberation as the highest principle - the one worth dying for.
Milk
Harvey Milk's organizing for gay liberation - freedom claimed through political action and visibility.
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Federal agents using the drug laws to suppress "Strange Fruit." Liberation as what the government decided was too dangerous to permit. Holiday kept singing it.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus Finch defending a Black man in a white Alabama courtroom. Liberation as what he was arguing for in a case he knew he would lose - the principle that mattered more than the verdict.