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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2010 11:20:34 GMT 10
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves
William Hazlitt (Born this day 1778)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2010 11:24:54 GMT 10
The Price of Liberty
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance
John Philpot Curran
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground
Frederick Douglass
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it
W. E. B. Dubois
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion
C. P. Snow Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth
Albert Einstein
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance
Robert F. Kennedy
I don't give 'em hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell
Harry Truman
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2010 9:52:07 GMT 10
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty
Abraham Lincoln (Fatally shot this day 1865)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 16, 2010 10:17:54 GMT 10
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people
Charlie Chaplin (Born this day 1889)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2010 8:20:43 GMT 10
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose
Thornton N Wilder (Born this day 1897)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2010 11:09:40 GMT 10
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom
You can only be free if I am free
Clarence Darrow (Born this day 1857)
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it
Albert Einstein (Died this day 1955)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 20, 2010 10:26:40 GMT 10
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man
Archibald MacLeish (Died this day 1982)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 21, 2010 13:47:16 GMT 10
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle
Rollo May (Born this day 1909)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 19, 2010 9:21:07 GMT 10
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself
Responsibility is the price of freedom
Elbert Hubbard (Born this day 1856)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 21, 2010 7:04:14 GMT 10
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does
Jean-Paul Sartre (Born this day 1905)
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