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HONEST TO A FAULT. He who controls your perception of reality controls you. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Treating people the way I would want to be treated. Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” Absolute power corupts absolutely. Freedom just another word for nothing left to lose. What we got here is failure to communicate. Just moved back to NC from CA (MISTAKE) Check out "Striped Naked Maced and beaten for a stop sign" on UTUBE thats me. I won the case looking forward to the lawsuit. MOVE FORWARD NOT BACK. lIVING IN NEW YORK CITY. HARLEM. Doing whatever I can afford to do whenever I want to. How about you? Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ~JuvenalLaws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese ProverbNever do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert EinsteinNo radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. ~Hermann KeyserlingWhen leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for LifeIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~VoltaireIf... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ~Malcolm XHuman history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ~Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and ReligionEach man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~Mark TwainIntegrity has no need of rules. ~Albert CamusIf we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ~Louis D. BrandeisLaws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. ~John J. Miller, And Hope to DieDisobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for RevolutionistsEvery actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonWe should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. ~Alexander BickelIt is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ~Clarence DarrowIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ~Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh MistressOrdinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Bishop Desmond TutuIt is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceBest book I just read after doing 60 days in jail check out video."The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand Quoting her. It is not the works, but the belief which is here decisive and determines the order of rank to employ once more an old religious formula with a new and deeper meaning - it is some fundamental certainty which a nobel soul has about itself. Somethingwhich is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also is not to be lost.This view of man has rarely been expressed in human history. Today, it is virtually non-existent. Yet this is the view in various degrees of longing wistfulness, passion and agonized confusion-the best of mankind's youth starts out in life. It is not even a view, for most of them, but a foggy, grouping undefined sence mand of raw pain and imcommunicable happiness. It is a sence of enormous expectations, the sence that ones life is importaint, that great achievements are within one's capacity, and that great things lie ahead.It is not in the nature of man - nor of any living entity to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at first touch of pressure; some sellout; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose there fire, never knowing how or why they lost it. then all of these vanish in the vast swamp of there elders who tells them persistently that maturity consists of abandoning one's mind; security, of abandoning one's values; practicality, of losing self esteem. Yet a few hold on and move on, knowing that the fire is not to be be betrayed, learning how to give it shape, purpose and reality, but whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a nobel vision of man's nature and of life's potential.There are very few guidepost to find. The Fountainhead's is one of them.This is one of the cardinal reasons of The Fountainhead's lasting appeal: It is a comfirmations of the spirit of youth, proclaiming man's glory, showing how much is possible.It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature -and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life it's meaning - and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine: It is not me or the Fountaionhead that they will betray: it is their own soulsAyn Rand New York, May 1968 Author of "The Fountainhead" published 1943