Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American RevolutionariesIn Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation. As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the “system” is in disorder—if not on the road to functional collapse. But though it is easy to identify our political problems, the solutions are not always as clear. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation. |
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... feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. —ALExIS DE TOCquEVILLE, Democracy in America Give Me Liberty ...
... feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. —ALExIS DE TOCquEVILLE, Democracy in America Give Me Liberty ...
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... feel ourselves clouded within, cramped, baffled obscurely from without, not in alignment with the electric source that is liberty. So it is easy for us to rationalize always further and more aggressive cramping and clouding; is the ...
... feel ourselves clouded within, cramped, baffled obscurely from without, not in alignment with the electric source that is liberty. So it is easy for us to rationalize always further and more aggressive cramping and clouding; is the ...
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... feel your wishes change. “[Freedom] liberated us the day we stopped living in a world where 'truth' and 'falsehood ... feels painful but ultimately cleansing and energizing. You want to be more like them; then you realize that maybe you ...
... feel your wishes change. “[Freedom] liberated us the day we stopped living in a world where 'truth' and 'falsehood ... feels painful but ultimately cleansing and energizing. You want to be more like them; then you realize that maybe you ...
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... feel “at . . . ease” and lead them to act on behalf of a whole. In 1814, he wrote to a friend, Miles King, using “happiness” in the context of honesty, kindness, and respect for others' personal and religious freedoms: —16— naomi wolf.
... feel “at . . . ease” and lead them to act on behalf of a whole. In 1814, he wrote to a friend, Miles King, using “happiness” in the context of honesty, kindness, and respect for others' personal and religious freedoms: —16— naomi wolf.
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... feel more outrage and less detachment, do more fighting and less settling. And there wasn't a time when my commitment could expire; it wasn't “one revolution” or “in your college days” that we were asked to fight. It is whenever our —20 ...
... feel more outrage and less detachment, do more fighting and less settling. And there wasn't a time when my commitment could expire; it wasn't “one revolution” or “in your college days” that we were asked to fight. It is whenever our —20 ...
Contents
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We are required to speak freely | 91 |
We Have a Duty to rebel Continually | 105 |
ordinary People are supposed | 125 |
americans Cherish the rule of Law | 141 |
a New american revolution | 209 |
DriviNG CHaNGe | 215 |
become the Media yourself | 221 |
Produce New Media | 235 |
Protest | 245 |
staging a Protest | 251 |
How to speak in Any Public Context | 260 |
organize a town Hall Meeting | 271 |
america establishes No God | 157 |
americans Deliberate with | 173 |
Liberty is Universal america Cannot | 189 |
Become the leaders of America | 283 |
CreAte orCHANge | 293 |
organize a National HearingAnnette warren | 300 |
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