الحرّيةُ هي الحقّ الفطريّ الوحيد للإنسان، وهي له بحكم إنسانيّته؛ وتعني الاستقلالَ عن إرادة الآخرين وقهرهم، بالقدر الذي يتّسق فيه مع حرّية كلّ شخص آخر.

“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.”Immanuel Kant — The Metaphysic of Ethics (1836)