"We grant no dukedoms to the few,We..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
We grant no dukedoms to the few,We hold like rights and shall;Equal on Sunday in the pew,On Monday in the mall.For what avail the plough or sail,Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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More on Freedom
“I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.”
“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”
“When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.”
More on Equality
“True friendship can exist only between equals.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”