When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
Copy QuoteFollow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Copy Quote View & ShareAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
Copy Quote View & ShareIndependence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Copy Quote View & ShareOriginality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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