“I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveFreedomLibertyRightsConditionsMediaHavensPleaseLimitsSpeechConstitutionPressesNeighborTolerancePrivacyFree SpeechNuisanceCollideRight To Privacy Author:H. L. Mencken
“In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.” MenLittlesPoorRichConditionsHonestNeighborRich ManPoor ManKnaves Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.” PeopleHumansLightActionSongInterestMy OwnSpaceResponsibilityDarknessConditionsResponsibleEnvyNeighborInventionCandleHuman ConditionBeing ResponsibleCursing Author:Karl Hess
“What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?” ShouldLooksIdeasStatesSeemsFatherConditionsReturnCivilizationEatingRootsLongingNeighborChainsIndigenousIndulgeBarbarismIndulge InWretchednessVenerationAcornsSuperlatives Book:Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings Source: Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.” NeedsHumansChildrenNationsSocialParentHuman BeingsEducationSocietyConditionsMembersOrganizationInstitutionsWorkersDetermineNeighborOur FamilyBoardsSufficientCommitteesBeing HumanSocial InstitutionsNeighbors And Friends Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner
“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.” Has BeensArtSelfLastsStrongCausesJusticeWalksDealsSecretRightsLandConditionsTaughtFairsWeakMercyUniversalSocial JusticeDuesNeighborIndianConsiderationCourtesyStrong Will Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'” MenNextWhiteRaceDoorsLandConditionsDependsImportanceRelationCastsNeighborFriendlyWhere You AreSouthernUnderestimateWhite ManBucketsCultivatingForeign LandsNext Door Neighbors Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants.” IfsWantLoveMeanMatterPlansSacrificeConditionsLove YouAuthorityNo Matter WhatNeighborLove Your Neighbor Author:Skyla