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Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, whi

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Death
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Change
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There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. – Charles Kingsley

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Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Freedom

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, its that the terrorists can attack us, but they cant take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. – Jon Stewart

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Freedom

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. – Marie Curie

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience. – Paul Boese

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I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. – Mother Teresa

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