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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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“Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.”
Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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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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“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
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“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”
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“It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.”
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“Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.”
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“He who respects others is respected by them.”
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“I don't like disrespecting other teams.”
