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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... Patriotism 23 fake Democracy 33 Part ii: Core values Principle one: We are required to speak freely 91 Principle two: We Have a Duty to rebel Continually against injustice and oppression 105 Principle three: ordinary People are supposed ...
... Patriotism 23 fake Democracy 33 Part ii: Core values Principle one: We are required to speak freely 91 Principle two: We Have a Duty to rebel Continually against injustice and oppression 105 Principle three: ordinary People are supposed ...
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... patriotism. Liberty is a state of mind before it is anything else. You can have a nation of wealth and power, but without this state of mind—this psychological “america”—you are living in a deadening consciousness; with this state of ...
... patriotism. Liberty is a state of mind before it is anything else. You can have a nation of wealth and power, but without this state of mind—this psychological “america”—you are living in a deadening consciousness; with this state of ...
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... patriotism—the 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 ...
... patriotism—the 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 ...
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... patriotism” bullet points we get from the Declaration focus on its first sentence and an early clause in it, the famous “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” (Or as a Svedka vodka ad has it, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of ...
... patriotism” bullet points we get from the Declaration focus on its first sentence and an early clause in it, the famous “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” (Or as a Svedka vodka ad has it, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of ...
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... patriotism means understanding that the Declaration of Independence charges us categorically and always as Americans to rise up in person against threats to liberty. A friend remarked that the words in the Declaration seemed to force ...
... patriotism means understanding that the Declaration of Independence charges us categorically and always as Americans to rise up in person against threats to liberty. A friend remarked that the words in the Declaration seemed to force ...
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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