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By Mary Rizzo • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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



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By Mary Rizzo • Nov 28th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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



quote of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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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By Mary Rizzo • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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 [...]



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By Mary Rizzo • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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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By Mary Rizzo • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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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By Mary Rizzo • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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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By Mary Rizzo • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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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By Mary Rizzo • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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



thinking quote of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

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