WHAT THE WORDS MEAN (1)
FREEDOM:
1. The quality or state of being free.
• The absence of necessity, coercion or constraint in choice or action.
• Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another.
2. A political right.
3. The power or condition of acting without compulsion.
It has a broad range of application from total absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated.
MOVEMENT:
1. A series of organized activities working toward an objective.
2. An organized effort to promote or attain an end.
TERROR:
1. A state of intense fear.
2. One that inspires fear, a frightening aspect, a cause of anxiety.
3. Reign of Terror: Violence (as bombing) committed by groups in order to initimidate a population or government into granting their demands.
TERRORISM:
1. The systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion.
(1) 2004 Merriam-Webster, Online
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