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Guest Post — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:07:48 +0000

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden, Basketball coach

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Mary Rizzo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:14 +0000

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
Stephen R Covey

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Mary Rizzo — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:11:53 +0000

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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Mary Rizzo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:11:40 +0000

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Shurz – US politician (1829 – 1906)

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Mary Rizzo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:26:49 +0000

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.

Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.

Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

And on issues that seem important to you,

stand up and be counted at any cost.

Thomas J Watson (1874-1956)

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Mary Rizzo — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:00:19 +0000

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr

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Mary Rizzo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:07:20 +0000

Journalists must seek and speak the truth, for we are the voice of the voiceless millions.
Razia BHATTI,
Pakistani journalist

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Mary Rizzo — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:35:18 +0000

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori, Educator

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Mary Rizzo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:43:03 +0000

What do the colors of the Palestinian flag represent?

Green is for the land of Palestine,
White is for the peace in which the Palestinian people lived before they were made refugees,
Red is for their blood spilled trying to liberate their land, and
Black is for their life under occupation.

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Mary Rizzo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:48:48 +0000

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Euripides

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Mary Rizzo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:46:55 +0000

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

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Mary Rizzo — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:17:22 +0000

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others. ELBERT HUBBARD (1856-1915)

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Mary Rizzo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:34:33 +0000

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln Letter to Henry Pierce

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Mary Rizzo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:12:02 +0000

Unlike the United States or most Western nations, neither Israel nor Palestine has a constitution (although both operate under respective basic laws). As a result, the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of the press are arbitrarily bestowed rather than guaranteed by law. The closest such guarantee is found in the Palestinian Authority’s Basic Law, which states that every person has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and expression, whether orally, in writing, or through other means.

In 1995, however, the Palestinian Authority instituted a press law making it a crime to criticize the Palestinian Authority or the president. Although on the books for more than a decade, until recently the law was not enforced either in Gaza or the West Bank—but the escalation of attacks on press offices, arrests of journalists, and the cessation of newspaper distribution within Palestine are evidence that the law is now be implemented.
Mohammed Omer

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Mary Rizzo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:41:05 +0000

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Malcolm X

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Mary Rizzo — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:59:58 +0000

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes, American writer

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Mary Rizzo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:00:52 +0000

You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.
G. R. CAPP and T. R. CAPP, Principles of Argumentation and Debate, 1965

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Mary Rizzo — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:20:25 +0000

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death, 1961

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Mary Rizzo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:49:51 +0000

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Mary Rizzo — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:21:10 +0000

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Frederick Douglass, an example for all of us