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Mon 19 Jan 2009
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm…
Sun 7 Dec 2003
Every great human being in history earned it. We can give it and we can receive it. Without it it’s hard to live. If you have enough of it you can change the world.
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Respect means:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
3. Willingness to show consideration or appreciation.
From Latin respectus, from past participle of respicere, to look back at, regard : re-, re- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European Roots.
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“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Respect a man, and he will do all the more.”
-John Wooden
“If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love…
Mon 1 Dec 2003
Dear Friends,
I’d like to tell you a little tale, a personal story of what it is like to fear losing your freedom of speech, how it feels to be drowned in a wave of patriotism which threatens with all its might to suffocate your ideas and stifle dissent.
For nearly four months, from September through December of last year, I did not know whether the book I had just written for HarperCollins — STUPID WHITE MEN — was ever going to be read by the American public. HarperCollins, one of the major publishing houses in the world, was trying to decide whether the words I had written were now “too offensive” to a nation which had suddenly fallen in love with…
Thu 13 Nov 2003
I’m back home after visiting 39 cities in 23 days on my book tour and I want to thank everyone who came by to see me. It was our biggest tour yet, with five to ten thousand people a night filling basketball arenas and county fair grounds across the country. In many cities there were thousands more of you who couldn’t get in (4,000 people pounding on the door in Baltimore was quite a sight!). Next time we do the football stadiums!
The book went immediately to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. And it is still at #1 after three weeks! It is also #1 in the L.A. Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and most other lists…
Mon 19 Jan 2009
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm…
Sun 7 Dec 2003
Every great human being in history earned it. We can give it and we can receive it. Without it it’s hard to live. If you have enough of it you can change the world.
_________________
Respect means:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
3. Willingness to show consideration or appreciation.
From Latin respectus, from past participle of respicere, to look back at, regard : re-, re- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European Roots.
__________________
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Respect a man, and he will do all the more.”
-John Wooden
“If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love…
Mon 1 Dec 2003
Dear Friends,
I’d like to tell you a little tale, a personal story of what it is like to fear losing your freedom of speech, how it feels to be drowned in a wave of patriotism which threatens with all its might to suffocate your ideas and stifle dissent.
For nearly four months, from September through December of last year, I did not know whether the book I had just written for HarperCollins — STUPID WHITE MEN — was ever going to be read by the American public. HarperCollins, one of the major publishing houses in the world, was trying to decide whether the words I had written were now “too offensive” to a nation which had suddenly fallen in love with…
Thu 13 Nov 2003
I’m back home after visiting 39 cities in 23 days on my book tour and I want to thank everyone who came by to see me. It was our biggest tour yet, with five to ten thousand people a night filling basketball arenas and county fair grounds across the country. In many cities there were thousands more of you who couldn’t get in (4,000 people pounding on the door in Baltimore was quite a sight!). Next time we do the football stadiums!
The book went immediately to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. And it is still at #1 after three weeks! It is also #1 in the L.A. Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and most other lists…