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| Iranian protests Feb. 14th 2011 |
"What has been true in Egypt should be true in Iran, which is that people should be able to express their opinions and their grievances and seek a more responsive government."
-- American President Barack Obama Feb. 15th 2011
Americans are also able to express their opinions and grievances and seek a more responsive government. Would that We the People would express our opinions and grievances en masse, instead of waiting for a president to do it for us, and attacking each other in the mean time over who'd be best for the job.
United we stand. Divided we fall.
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
-- American former slave and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, 1857
MJW
Poignant and true.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stephen.
ReplyDeleteA friend once told me, "Freedom is never GIVEN to a people. They have to SEIZE it. If that freedom is "GRANTED" (GIVEN) then they really aren't free after all.
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