Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

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Fighting for justice Political courage Courage Progress Politics

Author

James Baldwin

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As Much Truth As One Can Bear The New York Times

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

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United States

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Citation

Baldwin, James. "As Much Truth As One Can Bear." The New York Times, 14 Jan. 1962.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

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Topic
Nature of freedom Liberation Freedom

Author

James Baldwin
Source
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1961 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

Another quote from the 1960s

In other words, the First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion.

William O. Douglas

Grisworld v. Connecticut

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Topic
First Amendment Constitutional law

Author

William O. Douglas
Source
Grisworld v. Connecticut
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1965 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Griswold v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 381, 7 June 1965, pp. 479–531. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/.

Another quote about Courage

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Happiness Freedom Courage
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Pericles

Author

Thucydides
Source
Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War
Genre
Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Pericles. Quoted in The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.