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There are governments that claim that limiting religious liberty is necessary to protect social stability or the harmony of the country. Romero’s message is that this is [no] valid justification. [Civil or natural] rights protection defines what a legitimate social stability is, rather than the other way around.

— Massimo Introvigne

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Sometimes, friendship may change the world.

A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.

While millions around the world practice yoga for health and peace of mind, Russian anti-cultists see only a sinister plot.

Sometimes, the path to freedom is best understood from the ground up.

When [the] law becomes optional, justice becomes elusive.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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