Famous quotes containing the words liberty, bell and/or founding:
“The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.”
—Jeffrey Archer (b. 1940)
“... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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