True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Lamont taught at Columbia Cornell Harvard and the New School for Social Research. edition (with gender neutral. From 1951 until 1958 he was denied a passport by the State Department.

Corliss Lamont (March 28 1902 – April 26 1995) was a socialist philosopher and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from early 1940s.