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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause - whether inner city blacks or women - is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.”
― Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model
― Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
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