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“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”
Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012. 
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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011
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“If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.”
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“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”
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“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
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“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
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“Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.”
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“We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.”
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“It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.”
