Gerry Spence Quotes
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When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
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The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?
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We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.
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The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
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As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
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We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.
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Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
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To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
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When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
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Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.
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The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.
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Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
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No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !
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. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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Credibility is what it is ALL about.
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Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.
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What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
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The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
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There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
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Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
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I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
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Without argument the species would parish.
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It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
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