"When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda."
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"Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared."
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"Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies."
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"And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?"
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"In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on."
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"If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?"
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"True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul."
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"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."
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"... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?"
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"More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the instruments of modern science, he is still assured personal freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself, his family and his country greater material comfort, ease and happiness; greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment."
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"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence."
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"The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged."
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"When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself."
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"Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality."
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"The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived."
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"A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision."
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"Freedom has no history."
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"He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom."
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"It is only when a man is alone that he is really free."
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"It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for."
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