"The debate over abortion epitomizes how we define freedom," he said.

Nineteenth-century Americans, for example, defined freedom in part as economic autonomy, achieved through owning a farm or small business.

While the upper and middle classes define freedom as choice, working-class Americans emphasize freedom from instability.

But elsewhere lay wide choice, depending on how you defined personal freedom and the ways it was implemented.

They defined freedom as autonomy from white control in religious, family and economic terms and as achieving full rights of citizenship.

Iacobucci first attempted to define freedom of religion, and started by giving a legal definition for religion.

You can't define god any more than you can define love or freedom.

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail because he defines freedom as the right to vote.

Individual national library associations expand upon these principles when defining intellectual freedom for their constituents.

We want this coalition to be defined by three words: freedom, fairness and responsibility.