Now, when people like Sen. Daschle stand up in the Senate and attack the president one day before the war starts, then that, to me, borders on lack of patriotism and I think it is wrong… there are people… who have got so much money they feel ashamed of it and they hate America… They […]
Dissent Quotes
How can we pay attention to this spoiled, affluent, bored, rock-throwing generation who only want to tear down America without offering any solutions? Sometimes I have just spent 40 minutes in a taxi trying to get through the 15 blocks to the TV host who has asked the question. I wonder from whom we should […]
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him… If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of ‘dissing,’ then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious… Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is always dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
When you’ve written to your President, to your congressman, to your senator and nothing, nothing has come of it, you take to the streets.
Members of Congress have a duty… Ours is a Constitutional duty to continue to raise questions about policies that put America’s sons and daughters in harm’s way and to oppose those policies when we believe that they are wrong. Likewise, citizens have a duty to question and to seek answers to their concerns. At times […]
Anyone who’s called a dissident in their own society is probably an honest person. There are things an honest person ought to be objecting to. Most people won’t do it. They support them, or they join in carrying them out. There’ll always be a scattering of people who try to point them out, and tell […]
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
