September 29, 2008

Important inspirational reminder -

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility
against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

-- Thomas Jefferson, September 23, 1800,
as inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

- Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE

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