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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.”

Values Freedom Ought Prove Obliged

Author:Edmund Burke

“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.”

“Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.”

Mean Values Freedom Power Judging Speech Lists Code Denied Censorship Balanced Free Speech

Author:Ronald Dworkin

“To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.”

Giving Values Freedom Liberty Blessing Slavery Slave Penalties

Book:Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820