"The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, â€œAre we free?â€ I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?"

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Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.19, Macmillan

Gerry Spence

#Hurt Quotes #Eye Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.”
“It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.”
“Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (1998). “In My Father's House: And Related Readings”, McDougal Littel
“For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.”
“I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.”
“I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.”
“There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.”
“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”

Source : Eloise Jarvis McGraw (2007). “The Moorchild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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