Reply #24: No it doesn't require "power".. it's called peer pressure and [View All]

people love to gang up on unpopular points of view.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression - Thomas Paine

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free. -- Clarence Darrow

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right - Mohandas K Ghandi

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. - H.L. Mencken