In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
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“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
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(1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
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Louis Veuillot
(1813–1883) French journalist
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Original: (fr) Quand je suis le plus faible, je vous demande la liberté parce que tel est votre principe ; mais quand je suis le plus fort, je vous l’ôte, parce que tel est le mien
(fr) Also appears in the form "Quand les libéraux sont au pouvoir, nous leur demandons la liberté, parce que c’est leur principe, et, quand nous sommes au pouvoir, nous la leur refusons, parce que c’est le nôtre"
Misattributed to Veuillot in Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert: "When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."
According to Pierre Pierrard, this was attributed to Veuillot by Montalambert, and Veuillot protested he did not say it.