“But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Remarks to the People of Estonia (September 2014)
“Joseph Heller knew how the need to belong, and the need for security, can make people accept lethal and stupid conditions, and then act as if they had imposed them on themselves.”
2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
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Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Address to AFL–CIO (1961)
Context: Negroes are almost entirely a working people…. Our needs are identical with labor's needs: decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old-age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children and respect in the community. That is why Negroes support labor's demands and fight laws which curb labor. That is why the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature, spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth.
“Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 22 (p. 219)
“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 171
Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
Homily on the fourth anniversary of the death of John Paul II http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20090402_anniv-morte-gpii_en.html (2 April 2009) <br class="br">2009
“A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves”
James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
2015, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (2015)
“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)