Murray Levin quotes

Murray Levin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.”
-- Murray Levin

Source : Murray Burton Levin (1971). “Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression”

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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.”
“Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.”
“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”
“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”
“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.”
“He isnâ€™t like us Low. You know that right.â€ I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didnâ€™t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. â€œIâ€™m not stupid Cage.”
“Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.”
“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”
“A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.”
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

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