Freedom and Equality

What is license without equivalence? Oppression. What is contactity without exemption? Oppression. The power of beingness equal and the power of self-rule attributed to the will depend on each other to co-exist in the world. Throughout generations, decades, years, the same wall continues over the balance among equal rights and individual freedom in a unbent democracy. But can freedom still exist without equality? A well view and influential French quiet theorist Alexis De Tocqueville believes that equality is stronger than anything, correct greater cause than having his freedom. He mentioned in one of his noneworthy work Democracy in America: In our mean solar day freedom can non be establish without its support and to despotism itself cannot curb without it... (482); he strongly states his spirit on sacrificing rather than be controlled. As daring as I can be, I challenge his belief and al-Qaida with my argument that equality is not a required doer to maintain fre edom in democracy.\nRewinding back to 411 BC, an Athenian historian, a political philosopher, and a popular named Thucydides had a different view. During the Peloponnesian War (431 to 404 BC), he states that Athenian soldiers will battle for their farming rather than being equal to their own enemies. We do not feel called upon to be ireful with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulges in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they chatter no real harm(112). Freedom allows society to go in any guardianship it chooses, even if it is towards an unequal society. The Athenians chooses to compress their enemies and hoping to protect what is theirs, their state, also for their freedom. We contain done naught extraordinary, nothing contrary to human spirit in accepting an imperium when it was offered to us and then in refusing to give it up. aft(prenominal) all, the war was caused by the harvest-home in power of Athenians pudding st one that leads the Sparta ...