Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
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I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.
I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.
Ron DeSantis - November 2018
"How you gonna get a gun?"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"
Florida is America's bas*ment: it's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.
Robert California in The Office - Season 8 Episode 11
Wrong? We're in Florida. The state bird is a chicken finger.
Maury the Hormone Monster in Big Mouth - Season 3 Episode 5
Saudi Arabia... the country with bans on pork, alcohol and p*rn - or, as it's known in America: a Florida Breakfast.
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)
Jerry: "Why Florida?"
Cat: "Because they don't ask questions. They play Volleyball, they party and they have fun."
Cat: "Because they don't ask questions. They play Volleyball, they party and they have fun."
Rick and Morty - Season 4 Episode 4
Saul Goodman: "How about Florida? You get a tan, meet the Swedish bikini team, you know, swim with the dolphins."
Jesse Pinkman: "What about... Alaska?"
Saul Goodman: "Alaska, okay. Well, that's a different vibe. I never figured you for a big moose lover, but whatever floats your boat."
Jesse Pinkman: "What about... Alaska?"
Saul Goodman: "Alaska, okay. Well, that's a different vibe. I never figured you for a big moose lover, but whatever floats your boat."
Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad - Season 5 Episode 11
Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot.
Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Florida.
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Florida - and that's pretty much the same thing.
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
William Wallace in Braveheart
10It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
9Justice is a weapon. It can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others.
Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs - Season 1 Episode 7
4Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy - June 1963
3We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
We live in a world where losing your iPhone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
V in V for Vendetta
9The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.
Jamillia in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.
Angela Merkel - October 2021, during the 31st Day of German Unity
1It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them accountable if they're not.
Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 3 Episode 6
1One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
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The Wok.
The Wok.
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