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Also Known As	freedom • individual liberty

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Painting by Eugene Delacroix showing Liberty as a woman holding the French flag and leading armed revolutionaries over fallen bodies during the July Revolution of 1830.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Key People

1st Baron Acton of Aldenham, oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton

English historian and moralist