"Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

Margaret Halsey

#Democracy Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Weird like Murdock, Thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face, But I'm wild like B.A.”
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.”
“No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.91
“Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.”
“Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith.”
“I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.”
“If you want to be loved, love.”
“The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".”

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