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Thought for Today
* * * * * * 29.
"If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands,
they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and
books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our
efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of
the past are threatened by intolerance, we must provide a safe place for
their perception." 28.
"People who advocate freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without the awful
roar of the thunder and lightning. Without struggle, there is no
progress. This struggle might be a moral one. It might be a physical
one. It might be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never
will. People may not get all that they pay for in this world, but they
certainly pay for all that they get." 27.
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from
injustice? 26.
"For in a Republic, who is 'the country?' Is it the Government which is
for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant --
merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine
what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who
isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." 25.
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new
master once in a term of years." -- Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Political theorist, activist, abolitionist Source 24.
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government
of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.
The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and
reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to
live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create
in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the
conqueror 23.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the
apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great
anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak 22.
"Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the
crime." 21.
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires
you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law 20.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side
of the oppressor 19.
"Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your
religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your
rights!" 18.
A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and
if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual,
each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its
independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to
manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.": 17. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that
you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or
says it 16. Each of the Iraqi children killed by the
United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in
Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When
they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers
fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from
small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as
much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks
them to die for a victory that will never be theirs 15. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method
inexorably must choose lying as his principle 14. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers
to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling
fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to
drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their,
writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a
hurricane of fire 13.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights.
Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from
infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting 12.
Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary
impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has
been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have
bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular
resistance 11.
``Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that
when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should
set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were
entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity
should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage
to renew the battle which their fathers began....' 10.
"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a
public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most
unsparingly our most cherished opinions." Sir Leslie Stephen -
(1832-1904), literary essayist, author Source 9.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or in the holy name of liberty and democracy? 8.
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the
weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary
dangers from abroad 7.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the
first and only object of good government: 6.
We may not know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future. 5.
"I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I
think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural
community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have
been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich." 4.
"True compassion, is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to
see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." 3. "The misapprehension springs from the fact that the learned jurists, deceiving themselves as well as others, depict in their books an ideal of government -- not as it really is, an assembly of men who oppress their fellow-citizens, but in accordance with the scientific postulate, as a body of men who act as the representatives of the rest of the nation. They have gone on repeating this to others so long that they have ended by believing it themselves, and they really seem to think that justice is one of the duties of governments. History, however, shows us that governments,
as seen from the reign of Caesar to those of the two Napoleons
and Prince Bismarck, are in their very essence a violation of
justice; a man or a body of men having at command an army of
trained soldiers, deluded creatures who are ready for any
violence, and through whose agency they govern the State, will
have no keen sense of the obligation of justice. Therefore
governments will never consent to diminish the number of those
well-trained and submissive servants, who constitute their power
and influence." 2.
"All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days
of Hitler. I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I
wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about
such a thing 1.
"Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so
seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so
slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid,
deluded, lunatic?"
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