I found it, and used it as my high school quote in 1983 West Seneca West.
To what avail the plow or sail or land or life if freedom fail?
in westren society there are all kind of freedoms are available to talk,to tell opinion,to follow any religon,to follow own culture,to speak own Language.how can we use this allfreedom rights in proper way with out hurt other society or community.
If you use your freedom of religion to worship or not worship as you wish, that isn’t hurting anybody (as long as you don’t hurt anybody over it).
If you voice your opinion or just talk and do it in a respectful way, that isn’t hurting anybody.
You have the freedom to follow your culture or speak your own language, those don’t hurt anybody.
You hurt the society when you introduce hatred of other people’s opinions or religion or culture. You hurt your community when you don’t respect other people in it, when you damage people’s property or when you get a bunch of people together to do something that is damaging to the community.
Most people in Western society respect other people and diversity as long as doesn’t mean someone else’s religion or beliefs prevents them from exercising their rights.
There is a point where someone’s culture or beliefs mean hurting or harming someone else, and that’s when there isn’t freedom to do whatever someone else thinks they should do in Western culture.
You probably know the difference between doing something that hurts others or the community and doing something that doesn’t. All you have to do to exercise your freedoms in Western culture is to do your thing and respect and value the people who are different from you. Everyone needs to work together to preserve things like communities and buildings, and usually people – no matter how different they think – do.
Western society has its relatively minor flaws at times, but for the most part, its pretty easy to live in it and live the way you want as long as you don’t hurt anyone else or destroy property.
What happened to it?
The House leadership didn’t put it up for a vote, there was no corresponding bill in the Senate, and it never got to the president…
I know that the ideas of montesquieu and such prepared the people to accept the idea of a republic even before they realised they wanted it.. but could someone go into more depth about that?
also, how did the unequal representation of the third estate in the Estates General affect the revolution besides the fact that it caused the third estate to break away and take the "tennis court oath"?
thanks in advance!
To your first question, I think the philosophers like Montesquieu and Rousseau gave revolutionaries a kind of blueprint for how to build their government. Most people realized there had to be some sort of reform, but the shape that took was based on how people interpreted various philosophers’ positions. More to your point, I think the ideas raised by philosophers about government made people realize that there could be something else other than absolute monarchy; that there was an alternative. What that alternative was exactly was a thing that was ruthlessly debated throughout the Revolution.
To your second question, I’m not entirely sure of the answer, though I might tie the Third Estate’s unequal representation in with the general frustration of the masses towards the aristocracy. It was a view of city-dwellers in Paris that at any moment the king’s forces may be unleashed to crush the Revolution, and this led to the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Also, in the countryside, the peasants were afraid of hired goons sent on them by their landlords, which led to peasants destroying their land owners’ tax papers, etc. All of these things came from a belief that the aristocracy was trying to stop reform in its tracks. The paralysis in the Estates-General might have been an early example of this to many city-dwellers or peasants, who wanted to see reform happen, but only saw aristocrats delaying and undermining any attempts at reform. (I’m not sure if that’s the answer you were looking for, but that’s what I came up with, hope it helps!)
16 yo daughter who doesn’t have sex, drug or drink, makes good grades, works part time, wants me to not have curfew, to let her stay over with boyfriend, go on out of town, overnight trips. I say no. She can’t understand why. Curfew midnight, weekends, 9pm school nights. I give her a late model car to drive, a cell phone, room of her own, foods of choice,college future, other extras. She still isn’t happy. Am I not understanding something, or her, or both?
Basically she is behaving like a teenager, just like a 2 yr old has their idiosyncrasies, teenagers have theirs. They want the adult stuff but in reality, understand NONE of it.
Unfortunately, the hormones are way dominant at that age and all you can do is try to cope & hope you survive the roller coaster ride.
FYI – stick by those curfew and no overniters rules ! At least if she ignores them and get into ugly circumstance, she will not be able to blame you with the "well, you said I could do it". You are totally right and need to stand by the basic safety rules, just like you would not let a 2 yr old stick objects in an electrical outlet ‘because they want to’ nor did you need to make the 2 yr old understand electricity.
THEY ONLY NEED TO KNOW THE RULES, you can explain it once but do not waste your time defending it after that.
good luck, and all our prayers
I mean doesn’t the Constitution give right to free speech? Just free speech? It doesn’t say "free speech unless someone gets upset" I mean isn’t a right? Doesn’t freedom come with a price? I mean I believe it is ignorant and no one should make distasteful jokes but isn’t it the right of the person weather they can tell the joke or not and not fear getting in trouble for it? If we start controlling and making people fear now what they say, what extremes can it be brought to in the future?
We also have The freedom of the press.
The freedom of assembly.
The freedom to bare arms.
Slowly we are losing the things our ForeFathers laid planned for us.
The nativity scene isn’t allowed to be displayed at the court house
anymore and that’s been several years ago.
How many more things can anyone think of what has been taken.
This practice has been going on for a long time.People just close their eyes.
It’s my business that I smoke.
I enjoy a well deserved cigarette while having my beer.
The freedom of assembly w/cigarette in hand is a no no.
So you see,slowly we are losing our rights.
Speeches are still allowed as long as you have a permit and without
disturbing the peace or what ever it is they say.
I’m tired.
Our freedoms are listed in the First, Second, Sixth and Eighth Amendments.
Equal rights are covered in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Amendments.
A key concept in American literature is personal freedom. Select one piece of literature from the course which dealt with the idea of personal freedom. In your response, include the name of the work of literature, the type of literature (novel, play, story or poem), and at least two specific ways in which the concept of personal freedom is evident in that literary work.
Common Sense- Thomas Payne
Is that what you needed?
Also, in what areas of your life are you free to do what you like?
When it comes to being stuck here in this awful country..
I want to get out, but I can’t. Because I need to get an EDUCATION first. Which is free here, but it isn’t in most other places, and I’m flat out broke, with parents who aren’t willing (or able) to pay for anything. =(
If one chooses not to go hang out with a certain ethnic group is that racism or just freedom of choice?
racism is not an act. It’s a belief. If you choose not to hang out with an ethnic group for whatever reason, you have the right to that. That’s freedom of choice. But if the reasoning behind any decision is that a group is inferior to your race based on what you perceive to be their racial identity, that act would be considered an act of racism. Anyway, ethnicity and race aren’t the same thing. Ethnicity takes a lot more into account, like religion and culture, and when you think about it people do that all the time. People tend to stay around people who look like them, think like them, act like them and so on.