Democracy means not "I am as ...

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Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
 Theodore Parker

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
 Theodore Parker
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.
 Theodore Parker
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
 Theodore Parker
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.
 Theodore Parker
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
 Theodore Parker