| She will answer, It died when the
Solemn Men, the Self-Righteous men came to preserve it in the Formaldehyde
of Correctness. It died when those who Know Best codified and purified
it with Good Thoughts. It died when the self-righteous men brought
Decent Standards to the libraries, when they banned Hate Speech from the
public avenues, and when they proclaimed their own ideas to be Above Question. |
"Homelessness is nothing to be ashamed of."
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It died when people forgot that Freedom
is not just a means to something else, but Life itself. For without
Freedom, life is a stale, drab shadow.
Freedom may live when men are brave and willing
to fight and die for Freedom. But Freedom dies when men become cowards,
afraid of what others might think or do, and when men bind each other into
the slavery of harmlessness. |