“Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.”
“I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.”
Source: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 12 : The Ultimate Secret : Make them Beat Themselves or Waging War on the Base Paths, p. 161
Context: As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas. Some said I was crazy to take such chances; others were beginning to suspect that maybe I had something. My counter to Criger's challenge had to be something unusual. And when we opened the first Boston series of '08, I watched the Young-Criger battery carefully before coming to the plate. Then I told Criger, "I'm going to steal every base on you today." … On four straight Young pitches, beginning with my single, I'd completed a tour of Boston bases. Our man at bat hadn't taken his club off his shoulder while I was coming around. Criger had been deflated in the worst possible way that can happen to a catcher — I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.
“This is exactly what people do not understand.”
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Context: The being of two people can differ from one another more than the being of a mineral and of an animal. This is exactly what people do not understand. And they do not understand that knowledge depends on being. Not only do they not understand this latter but they definitely do not wish to understand it.
“If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.”
Source: Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)
“We do what we're told,
Told to do.”
We Do What We're Told
Song lyrics, So (1986)
