"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down."

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Source : Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

Frederick Douglass

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“And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.”
“I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.”
“Everything you go through can be a lesson for you. Lack of forgiveness can manifest itself in different ways -in some lives it can be through sickness in someone else's life it can be through a bad attitude -or maybe through torn relationships and being angry all the time. I don't know how unforgiveness will manifest itself in your life, but what I can tell you is: it isn't worth it! All of us have done something we need forgiveness for.”
“He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.”
“Only that which is not said is sincere.”

Source : Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press
“The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.”
“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.”
“Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.”

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