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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
Communicate
Honestly
Learned
Race
Human
Enormously
Humans
Neighbors
Advance
Neighbor

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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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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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To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.
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To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.
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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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I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
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I love my life and I am so blessed.
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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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The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.
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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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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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Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
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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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The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
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The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
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Without argument the species would parish.
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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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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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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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