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“Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty.”

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Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes.”

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Source: Voice of Reason

“For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion." [New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) (concurring)]”

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“My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.”

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“Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.”

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Book:The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

Source: The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

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“I traded with Jesiba for your freedom last week. I have the papers in my desk. I wanted to throw a party for it- to surprise you.' The bathroom door began warping, bending. Bryce sobbed. 'I bought you and now I set you free, Lehabah.' Lehabah's smile didn't falter. 'I know,' she said. 'I peeked in your drawer.' And despite the monster trying to break loose behind them, Bryce choked on a laugh before she begged. 'You are a free person- you do not have to do this. You are free, Lehabah.' Yet Lehabah remained at the foot of the stairs. 'Then let the world know that my first act of freedom was to help my friends.”

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Book:House of Earth and Blood

Source: House of Earth and Blood

“Yo pensaba que también podía ser heroico escaparse por gusto, sin más, por amor a la libertad y a la alegría—no a la alegría impuesta oficial y mesurada, sino a la carcajada y a la canción que brotan de una fuente cuyas aguas nadie canaliza.”

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Book:El cuarto de atrás

Source: El cuarto de atrás