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“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”
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“It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.”
Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011. 
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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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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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“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
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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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“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”
Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.”
Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.
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“Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.”
Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.201, Simon and Schuster
