“deleted my Yahoo, Hotmail, flickr, digg and stumbleupon accounts one way forward to social freedom”
Tweet Jan 21, 2012, 7:10AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/160740948375126016 at Twitter.com
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Bassel Khartabil23
free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political priso… 1981–2015Related quotes
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Quoted from Margaret Thatcher, Article for Newsweek “Don’t undo my work” (27 April 1992).
Post-Prime Ministerial
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Review of Tropic of Cancer, in New English Weekly (14 November 1935)
Jason Scott Sadofsky (1970) American technology historian and archivist
Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1936645,00.html
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Cape Town University Address (June 2013)
Context: We always have the opportunity to choose our better history. We can always understand that most important decision -- the decision we make when we find our common humanity in one another. That’s always available to us, that choice. [... ] it can be heard in the confident voices of young people like you. It is that spirit, that innate longing for justice and equality, for freedom and solidarity -- that’s the spirit that can light the way forward. It's in you.
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912) <br class="br">Context: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high<br>Where knowledge is free<br>Where the world has not been broken up into fragments<br>By narrow domestic walls<br>Where words come out from the depth of truth<br>Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection<br>Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way<br>Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit<br>Where the mind is led forward by thee<br>Into ever-widening thought and action<br>Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
