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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... true “americans” consists of people who have crossed a personal rubicon of a specific 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 ...
... true “americans” consists of people who have crossed a personal rubicon of a specific 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 ...
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... true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are essentially giving up our citizenship. The notion that “American-ness” is a state of mind—a rigorous psychodynamic process or a continued personal challenge, rather than a static point on ...
... true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are essentially giving up our citizenship. The notion that “American-ness” is a state of mind—a rigorous psychodynamic process or a continued personal challenge, rather than a static point on ...
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... comfortable with true citizen democracy.18 “Jefferson's writings about race reveal that he saw Africans as innately deficient in humanity and culture.”19 When a male slave escaped from Benjamin Franklin in England, —9— Introduction.
... comfortable with true citizen democracy.18 “Jefferson's writings about race reveal that he saw Africans as innately deficient in humanity and culture.”19 When a male slave escaped from Benjamin Franklin in England, —9— Introduction.
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... true heirs to the American Revolution is to feel your wishes change. “[Freedom] liberated us the day we stopped living in a world where 'truth' and 'falsehood' were, like everything else, the property of the State. And for the most part ...
... true heirs to the American Revolution is to feel your wishes change. “[Freedom] liberated us the day we stopped living in a world where 'truth' and 'falsehood' were, like everything else, the property of the State. And for the most part ...
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... true and righteous altogether.”14 [Emphasis mine; translation: “If God wills that the war shall continue until all the profit generated by enslaved Americans' 250 years of forced and unpaid labor shall be paid out by both sides waging ...
... true and righteous altogether.”14 [Emphasis mine; translation: “If God wills that the war shall continue until all the profit generated by enslaved Americans' 250 years of forced and unpaid labor shall be paid out by both sides waging ...
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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