"How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country."

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Source : "Civil Rights in the USA, 1863-1980". Book by David Paterson, Susan Willoughby, Doug Willoughby, 2001.

Dean Acheson

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“I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.”
“The future of marketing is philanthropy,”
“The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.”

Source : Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”
“Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.”
“My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and-I hope-with some measure of success.”
“Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.”

Source : "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
“The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]”

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