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Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
Gerry Spence
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Gerry Spence
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
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Laramie
Wyoming
Gerald Leonard Spence
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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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We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.
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Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
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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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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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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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We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
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Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
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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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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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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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Words that do not create images should be discarded.
Gerry Spence
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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Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
Gerry Spence
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.
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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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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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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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