Protected Quotes

• If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.

  James Finley

  Love, God, Hurt

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• We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.

  Louise Hart

  Simple, Needs, World

  Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

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• There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

  Benjamin Crump

  Community, Black, Citizens

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• The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.

  Christopher Penczak

  Responsibility, Support You, Code Of Ethics

  Christopher Penczak, Andrea Neff (2004). “The Witch's Shield: Protection Magick & Psychic Self-defense”, p.30, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.

  Gloria Copeland

  Sides, Determined, Dedicated

  FaceBook post by Gloria Copeland from Sep 01, 2015

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• A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

  Vann R. Newkirk II

  Political, Justice Will Prevail, Resistance

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

  Jay Inslee

  Rivers, Bird, Tree

  "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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• Ignorance
  Protects itself,
  And protected,
  Ignorance grows.

  Octavia Butler

  Ignorance, Quails, Protect

  Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

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• If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

  Jack Valenti

  Ifs

  Jack Valenti's testimony as President of the MPAA to the U.S. House of Representatives, cryptome.org. April 12, 1982.

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• All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Issues, Freedom Of Speech, Serious

  Alan Dershowitz (2008). “Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Criminals

  "Excerpts From Opinions in Ruling on the Child Pornography Prevention Act". www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2002.

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• When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Exercise, Rights, Law

  "Freedom and its Obligations". Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, May 30, 1924.

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• Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.

  L. Neil Smith

  Mistake, Government, People

  "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 13, 2010.

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• Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Roots

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.108, TAN Books

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• Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

  Norman Dorsen

  Believe, Government, Atheism

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• We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

  Daniel Pauly

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

  Daniel Pauly (2010). “5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems”, p.45, Island Press

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• For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

  John Carroll

  Goal, Desire, Ants

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• Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

  Andrew Shue

  Simple, People, Safe

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• Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Law, Long

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• There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

  Kurt Hahn

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Mean, Organization

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