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" I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. " ~ Frederick Douglass

" It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. "

" Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. " ~ Pablo Picasso

" There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it. "
~ Thomas Sowell

" Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. "
~ Benjamin Franklin

"You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing."

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
~ anonymous, inspired by and often misattributed to Edmund Burke

I used to imagine that in a tyranny people were united against the oppressors, but now I realize that tyranny turns people against one another, making some glad or even ecstatic to witness the excessive punishment of those they've been taught to hate.
~ Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa professor
Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine (2:12:33) ~ Clyde Do Something, 2024-09-27

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
~ Frederick Douglass, lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)

If I can't dance, I won't be part of your revolution.
~ anonymous, inspired by and often misattributed to Emma Goldmann

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
~ Pablo Picasso

Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite

There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it.
~ Thomas Sowell

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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 * Guilt loves company more than misery.
 *: ~ [[Raymond Potvin]], Windsorite
+* I used to imagine that in a tyranny people were united against the oppressors, but now I realize that tyranny turns people against one another, making some glad or even ecstatic to witness the excessive punishment of those they've been taught to hate.
+*: ~ [[Janice Fiamengo]], University of Ottawa professor
+*:: ''[https://www.youtube.com/live/6hpuu6eaRys?si=m8GCOXV5fXbEXTLf&t=3306 Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine] (2:12:33) ~ [[Clyde Do Something]], 2024-09-27