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Debra Schneider • 2 cards
fundamental, even primary, forms of freedom: the freedom to move; the freedom to disobey orders;
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The legal and philosophical question then became: what rights do human beings have simply by dint of being human – that is, what rights could they be said to have ‘naturally’, even if they existed in a State of Nature, innocent of the teachings of written philosophy and revealed religion, and without codified laws? The matter was hotly debated.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
22 Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao, “Accountability in an Authoritarian Regime: The Impact of Local Electoral Reforms in Rural China,” Yale University (2010), manuscript.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The problem is the First Amendment protects their free speech, but it doesn’t offer them any blanket protection from retribution.”
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
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