Showing posts with label Dissent is not disloyalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dissent is not disloyalty. Show all posts

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Dissent is not disloyalty

"Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty, who says to a king, "You scoundrel!" and to princes, "You wicked men!"; who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of [God's] hands?"
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Job 34:17-19

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
~Edward R. Murrow

But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
~Declaration of Independence

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
~Thomas Jefferson in an interview with Thomas Paine