#liberty — Public Fediverse posts

In 1961, Liberty Bell 7 sank after Gus Grissom's flight; 38 years later, crews recovered the capsule from more than 15,000 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=in-1961-liberty-bell-7-sank-after-gus-grissoms-flight-38-years-later-crews-recovered-the-capsule-from-more-than-15000-feet-beneath-the-atlantic-ocean
<p>For thirty-eight years, astronaut Gus Grissom&#039;s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft lay lost beneath the waves
#liberty #grissom #capsule #beneath

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #savagery #perspective #civilrights #cruelty #dishonesty #enslavement #fourthofjuly #holiday #hypocrisy #independence #injustice #insincerity #liberty #pretense #slavery

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #DeclarationofIndependence #fourthofjuly #independenceday #liberty #patriotism

A quotation from Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #America #createdequal #DeclarationofIndependence #despotism #equality #liberty #prejudice #racism #tyranny #xenophobia

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

He had not learned that the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would have to oppress the former; and that, if there is a moral principle at stake, the saying that the voice of the people is the voice of God may be quite as untrue, and do quite as much mischief, as the old theory of the divine right of kings. The distinguishing feature of our American governmental system is the freedom of the individual; it is quite as important to prevent his being oppressed by many men as it is to save him from the tyranny of one.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Thomas Hart Benton, ch. 6 (1886)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #autonomy #civilrights #democracy #freedom #individual #liberty #majority #personalfreedom #tyranny #tyrannyofthemajority #voxpopuli

Hype for the Future 190G: City of Liberty, Missouri

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/hype-for-the-future-190g-city-of-liberty-missouri/

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Those who believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God may infer that any unusual opinion or peculiar taste is almost a form of impiety, and is to be viewed as a culpable rebellion against the legitimate authority of the herd. This will only be avoided if liberty is as much valued as democracy, and it is realized that a society in which each is the slave of all is only a little better than one in which each is the slave of a despot. There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-16), “The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 4, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/837…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #authority #conformity #democracy #dissent #equality #freedom #freedomofthought #herd #heterodoxy #liberty #majority #mob #popularopinion #slavery #tyrannyofthemajority #wethepeople #voxpopuli

We're removing the #OliveBranch from our eagle, for our 250th commemorative coins. The dime on its reverse (obverse is #Liberty) will have an eagle w/arrows for war but no branch of #peace.
Taken directly from our 1775 diplomatic "Olive Branch Petition" to #KingGeorge III, the *U.S. Seal* shows the #eagle holding both, & pointedly facing the branch of peace, not facing the arrows of #war.
Add the war crime of "No quarter!" & here we are.
#OurPutin #AnotherOrban #GOP #KKK
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-mint-reveals-removing-olive-143918680.html

Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.

—Robert Burns, “Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac”

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #poem #poetry #18thcentury #liberty #justice #freedom

Informe de Sutel: Claro lidera en velocidad, Liberty en cobertura y Kölbi los persigue

La superintendencia dio a conocer este viernes los resultados de su evaluación anual de servicios móviles, en la que los operadores privados se llevan el protagonismo.
La entrada Informe de [...]

#3G #4G #5G #Calidad #Claro #Cobertura #ICE #INFORME #Indicadores #InstitutoCostarricenseDeElectricidad #Kölbi #Liberty #País #SUTEL #SuperintenciaDeTelecomunicaciones #Velocidad #ÚltimaHora

https://semanariouniversidad.com/pais/informe-de-sutel-claro-lidera-en-velocidad-liberty-en-cobertura-y-kolbi-los-persigue/

Encuesta de Sutel: Claro, Kölbi y Telecable son los mejores evaluados por usuarios

El estudio evaluó los servicios de internet fijo, telefonía móvil, telefonía fija y televisión por suscripción.
La entrada Encuesta de Sutel: Claro, Kölbi y Telecable son los m [...]

#Claro #Encuesta #FedericoChacón #Internet #Kölbi #Liberty #País #SUTEL #ServiciosDeTelecomunicaciones #Sky #SuperintendenciaDeTelecomunicaciones #TELEFONIA #Telecable #Televisión #Tigo #Usuarios #ÚltimaHora

https://semanariouniversidad.com/pais/encuesta-de-sutel-claro-kolbi-y-telecable-son-los-mejores-evaluados-por-usuarios/

Saw a #MikeJohnson quote in #theGuardian basically admitting that he likes what #ElonMusk is doing because it's what they've "been unable to do" in congress for years.

So in other words, he's able to act unilaterally against ideological enemies which ofc is harder with a legislative body of hundreds of different voices.

#smallgovernment #socialism #liberty

Chris Riddell on the fate of #Liberty after the election of #DonaldTrump – cartoon in The Observer, 10th November 2024.

The freedoms of many #Americans are under threat from the #PresidentElect.

A quotation from Lippmann, Walter:

«
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lippmann-walter/48407/

#quote #quotes #quotation #discernment #disinformation #falsehood #information #liberty #lying #meme #truth

Christ sounded the Clarion Call the day a great-great-Grandaughter of Catherine the Great (four times removed) took her own life. Shortly. afterward, Alcoholics Anonymous made the decision to change from a fellowship of men and women to a fellowship of people.

In large part, AA has become an intake facility run by whores who have sold their lives out to demons.

#faith #freedom #life #liberty #apocalypse #alcoholicsanonymous #recovery #aa #spirituality

https://medium.com/@chi_rho_consulting/the-day-alcoholics-anonymous-died-34f8c29d2aad