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The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. ↗


— William Apess


#liberty #war #death

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable." [The Eternal Value of Privacy, May 18, 2006] ↗


— Bruce Schneier


#freedom #individuality #liberty #observation #privacy

He groaned and leaned his forehead against hers, “You drive me mad, Elizabeth. I dream I am holding you every night. I wake in a sweat, aching and disappointed. Dreams of you have replaced my nightmares, but they leave me empty and restless and my body on fire. I can't even remember why we argued. I don't care how things went wrong. ↗


— Judith James


#libertine-s-kiss #lizzy #william #dreams

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power. ↗


— Thomas Jefferson


#education #government #liberty #politics #education

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. ↗


— John F. Kennedy


#freedom #liberty #wisdom #education

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? ↗


— George Washington


#government #liberty #politics #youth #communication

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ↗


— Henry David Thoreau


#freedom #liberty #obedience #protest #slave

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ↗


— Abraham Lincoln


#ago #brought #conceived #continent #created

At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites. ↗


— Steve Biko


#family #liberty #south-africa #death

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty. ↗


— Thornton Wilder


#liberty #freedom






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