#lib

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#constitution #country #established #everyone #extend

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. ↗

— Burl Ives

#benjamin #benjamin franklin #franklin #had #how

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#agenda #barriers #came #challenge #concluded

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#common ground #conservatives #find #ground #liberals

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#deliberation #democracy #our #soul #stir

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#coast #due #far #idea #liberal

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#ad #bailey #i #just #lib

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#final #infallible #only