Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up…

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we...

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in...

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in...

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and...

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and...

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our...

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our...