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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... kind of inner experience is as toxic an environment as is a polluted waterway they are forced to drink from; it is as insufficient a space as being compelled to sleep in a one-room hut with seven other bodies on the floor. In contrast ...
... kind of inner experience is as toxic an environment as is a polluted waterway they are forced to drink from; it is as insufficient a space as being compelled to sleep in a one-room hut with seven other bodies on the floor. In contrast ...
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... kind and can no longer be satisfied with anything less than absolute liberty. this state of mind, i learned, has no national boundaries. the tibetans, who, as i write this, are marching in the face of chinese soldiers, are acting like ...
... kind and can no longer be satisfied with anything less than absolute liberty. this state of mind, i learned, has no national boundaries. the tibetans, who, as i write this, are marching in the face of chinese soldiers, are acting like ...
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... kind that you get to tune in to in a feelgood way just because you were lucky enough to have been born here and can then pretty much forget about—that this definition seems positively exotic. The founders understood “American-ness” in ...
... kind that you get to tune in to in a feelgood way just because you were lucky enough to have been born here and can then pretty much forget about—that this definition seems positively exotic. The founders understood “American-ness” in ...
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... kind of existential blood. We tend to assume that our American legacy promises us liberty and the pursuit of happiness—no questions asked. But I learned from my reading of the founders' work that just as you aren't promised freedom in ...
... kind of existential blood. We tend to assume that our American legacy promises us liberty and the pursuit of happiness—no questions asked. But I learned from my reading of the founders' work that just as you aren't promised freedom in ...
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... kind of principles, and that takes the kind of shape, that seems to them to be most likely to guarantee their safety and good fortune. It is obviously not prudent to change or to destroy long-established governments for superficial ...
... kind of principles, and that takes the kind of shape, that seems to them to be most likely to guarantee their safety and good fortune. It is obviously not prudent to change or to destroy long-established governments for superficial ...
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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