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We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
Gerry Spence
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Gerry Spence
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
Lawyer
Laramie
Wyoming
Gerald Leonard Spence
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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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Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
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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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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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Without argument the species would parish.
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A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
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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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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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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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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
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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.
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I love my life and I am so blessed.
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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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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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In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
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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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