Gerry Spence: Quotes about people

“The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America.”

Gerry Spence

Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 21 : The Theft of Our Voice, p. 258
Context: The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. It creates neighbors where once we were foreigners. It carries our individual voices to new communities formed through the magic of electronics.
The electronic village has been born, and the village voice, via the internet is being heard.

People , Democracy

“I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.”

Gerry Spence

Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 20 : The Media : The Perpetual Voice of the Master, the Abiding Ear of the Slave, p. 243. Dream 7 : A Propaganda for People, Not Things

People , Dreams , Democracy , Time

“We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.”

Gerry Spence

Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 19 : The Benevolent Dictator, p. 233

People

“Those whose minds are jammed with prejudice have room for little else. Growth is dead. Learning is gridlocked. They may understand our logic, but logic makes no difference. The word root of prejudice, praejudicium, implies prejudgment. People are prejudiced both for and against a philosophy, a religion, a belief system. They are prejudiced for or against a political party, the make of an automobile, a race, a person — you name it.”

Gerry Spence

Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 74

People , Religion , Understanding , Learning

“The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.”

Gerry Spence

Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 1 : We, the People, the New American Slaves, p. 8

People , Change

“Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. … Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.”

Gerry Spence

Source: From Freedom to Slavery (1996), Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 91

People , Housing

“Corporations do not make up this country, people do.”

Gerry Spence

As quoted in "Gerry Spence, Attorney At Lore" by Thomas Heath, in The Washington Post (6 September 1995) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/09/06/gerry-spence-attorney-at-lore/1bee185b-af93-4bf3-bb46-4a4ed728c196/

People , Country