"Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians."

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Source : Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com

Michael Lind

#Struggle Quotes #Gay Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.”
“Read read read Thats all I can say”
“If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.”

Source : "Democracy in the workplace". Interview with Nick Easen, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2004.
“You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.”
“There is a new face to hunger today. Many of the people who come to food pantries and soup kitchens are people who never thought they would need help - people who were once part of the middle class and are now unemployed or underemployed - people who are struggling to get by from day to day and week to week.”
“Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.”
“No man is an island. No man stands alone.”
“Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.”

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