Palestine Think Tank

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

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams, Second President of the United States

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By Mary Rizzo • Jul 19th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

Prison is not awful, but a process of compromises. You give in on each of your principles, one by one, until at last you "lose your sense of self," you become "thoroughly disgusted with yourself."
Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet and anti-apartheid activist

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By Mary Rizzo • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

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By Mary Rizzo • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

Intuition and concepts constitute … the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Emmanuel Kant

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By Mary Rizzo • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Elisabeth Kenny

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By Mary Rizzo • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."
Edith Hamilton

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

The liberatory voice … is characterized by opposition, by resistance. It demands that paradigms shift–that we learn to talk– to listen–to hear in a new way.
Deirdre Lashgari, Professor

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By Mary Rizzo • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

Not all citizens, even when they can do so and have access to digital devices, record disasters or human rights abuses – especially when their own security could be compromised for having done so. Governments can also clamp down hard on citizen journalism. The French Constitutional Council approved a law in early 2007 that criminalizes [...]