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Kanye West (1977-) |
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. |
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. |
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We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible |
We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine. |
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We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." |
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those comma |
We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet. |
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice |
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