Do people have an inate insticnt to be free?

Throughout history people have been uphappy with being considered less than another human. Whether it was the serfs in the Middle Ages or the slaves in American history. People do have an inate instinct to be free because it is shown throught time by men and women taking their lives into their own hands to get out of the current situation.

One example is Harriet Tubman escaping from being a slave and then leading hundreds of other slaves through the underground railroad because she felt that they deserved to be free and she knew that they had the same feeling.

Another example is the fact that so many people left their homes in the 1900s to come to America to seek freedom, not freedom from physical salvery, but freedom of speech, religion, and press which is represented by the Statue of Liberty and is in the Bill of Rights. The people of America and all over the world have the same instinct to say what they want to, do what tey want, and act how they want to.

Works Cited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights

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