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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
Freedom
Fear
Back
Reason
Many
Always
Time
Rolled
Sorry

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the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.
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Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
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Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
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I know: Guns Don't Kill People. But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, Bang, bang, you're dead, not much actually happens.
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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
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