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Joe Hill. H.L. Mencken. Aesop.   The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to…
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Albert Einstein. George Orwell. Will Rogers.   For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and…
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Dorothy Thompson. Winston S.Churchill. Aristotle.   To believe in liberal democracy is to believe that there is more good will in society than ill will; more ground for agreement than disagreement; more things that…
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Haile Selassie I. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hunter S. Thompson. Julian Barnes.   Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And…
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Ain't History Something... "In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis." See how…
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Stacey Abrams. Barbara Jordan. Martin Luther Ling Jr.   When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and…
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Benjamin Franklin. Eduardo Paes. Nancy Pearcey. I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of…
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John Stuart Mill. Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a…
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Albert Einstein. Oscar Ameringer. Larry Hardiman. For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest…
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Frantz Fanon. John F. Kennedy. Karl Marx.   Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be…
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Stacey Abrams. Albert Einstein.   There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because…
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H.L. Mencken. Abraham Lincoln. Groucho Marx.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series…
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Elmer T. Peterson. George Eliot. George Orwell.   A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the…
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Issac Asimov. W.E.B. Du Bois. Brendan Meyers.   There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its…
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Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha.   Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…
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Mona Eltahawy. Abigail Adams. JoeAnn Hart.   Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us…
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 John Pilger. Simone Weil. John Adams. The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.…
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Michelle Obama. Eleanor Roosevelt. Sheri L. Dew. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever…
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H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…
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Stacey Abrams. Ana Navarro. Frederick Douglass. When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued…
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Walter Cronkite. Candice Carty-Williams. C. Wright Mills. I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left…