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Wed 28 Feb 2024

Dragons

Posted by PJ under adults, children, dragons, fantasy, freedom, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.”

—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Tue 15 Nov 2022

Fool

Posted by PJ under fools, freedom, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society’s rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

—Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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Wed 9 Nov 2022

Child

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, children, freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child…every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.”

—Rosa Parks, the Library of Congress website,
https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-this-exhibition/detroit-1957-and-beyond/

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Mon 11 Jul 2022

Roots

Posted by PJ under ancestors, freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Break your chains and you are free. Cut your roots and you are dead.”

—French proverb

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Wed 8 Sep 2021

Freedom

Posted by PJ under freedom, mind, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I’d heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality much more than we’d like to think. Our bodies cannot know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.”

—Walter Mosley, Killing Johnny Fry

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Tue 15 Jun 2021

Forgiveness

Posted by PJ under forgiveness, freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you have got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

—Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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Tue 18 Aug 2020

Phillis

Posted by PJ under freedom, quote of the day, slavery
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Random quote of the day:

“In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance…

—Phillis Wheatley, letter to Reverend Samson Occom, February 11, 1774

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Wed 24 Jun 2020

Freedom

Posted by PJ under freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

—Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

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Thu 4 Jun 2020

Beans

Posted by PJ under freedom, history, justice, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

Years ago I heard that Abraham Lincoln freed the colored people, but it didn’t amount to a hill of beans.”

—Ned Cobb (aka Nate Shaw), Alabama sharecropper, quoted in All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten, 1974

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Thu 28 May 2020

Expression

Posted by PJ under freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

—Noam Chomsky, interview, The Late Show with John Pilger, 25 November 1992

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