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“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”
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“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
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“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
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“The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.”
Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
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“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”
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“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”
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“You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame”
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“Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.”
Source : "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.
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“Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.”
