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By Mary Rizzo • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others. ELBERT HUBBARD (1856-1915)
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
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 [...]
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
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
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
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
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Frederick Douglass, an example for all of us