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We are defined by how we use our power.

Gerry Spence

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Gerry Spence
Age: 96
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
Lawyer
Laramie
Wyoming
Gerald Leonard Spence
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We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
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I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
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Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
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Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.
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Words that do not create images should be discarded.
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Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
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Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
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My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
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Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
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The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.
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When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
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Without argument the species would parish.
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What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
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Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
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The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
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Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.
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I love my life and I am so blessed.
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Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
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