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2013 December 06
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"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended." |
"Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them." |
"I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite." |
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2013 December 05
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"I am certain that nothing has done so much
to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom
as the striving after this mirage of social justice." |
"The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised." |
"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another,
and in so far as it tends to exist with
the freedom of all according to a universal law,
it is the one sole original inborn right belonging
to every man in virtue of his humanity." |
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2013 December 04
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"Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine." |
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice,
but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." |
"Since they have dared, I too shall dare.
I shall tell the truth because I pledged myself to tell it
if justice regularly empowered did not do so fully, unmitigated.
My duty is to speak; I have no wish to be an accomplice." |
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2013 December 03
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"In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions
are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;
that they are not superior to the citizen;
that every one of them was once the act of a single man;
every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;
that they all are imitable, all alterable;
we may make as good; we may make better." |
"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society
more hideous than crime -- namely, repressive justice." |
"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ...
That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law
that his conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." |
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2013 December 02
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"Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man.
It involves the necessity for perpetual choice
which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded." |
"Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all." |
"It is not because we have been free,
but because we have a right to be free,
that we ought to demand freedom.
Justice and liberty have neither
birth nor race, youth nor age." |
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