Quotes

"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom."

Malcolm X, OAAU, "Homecoming" speech, 29 Nov. 1964, in By any means, p. 141
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"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary."

Malcolm X, Chicago Defender, 28. Nov. 1962
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"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."

- James Madison (Fourth President of the United States)
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Those who are willing to exchange freedom for security deserve neither.

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"If we fail to plan our own future, we will be a part of someone else's plan."

The choice is ours.

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"The responsibility for change, therefore, lies with us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical. This means fighting off the idea assassins who rush forward to kill any new suggestion on grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd, oppressive, or unworkable it may be."

Toffler 1995