Every emancipation has in it ...

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
 I. F. Stone

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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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The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
 I. F. Stone
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
 I. F. Stone
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.
 I. F. Stone
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.
 I. F. Stone
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.
 I. F. Stone