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Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

Gerry Spence

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Gerry Spence
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
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Laramie
Wyoming
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The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
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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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Words that do not create images should be discarded.
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It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
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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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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
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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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The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
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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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We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
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The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?
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When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.
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Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
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