The oppression of any people ...

The oppression of any people for opinion\'s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
 Hosea Ballou

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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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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
 Hosea Ballou
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
 Hosea Ballou
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
 Hosea Ballou
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
 Hosea Ballou
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
 Hosea Ballou