Profiles in Courageuos Dissent

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This series of profiles examines the courageous dissent of
contemporary people who are brave enough to oppose the
current onslaughts on human liberty. The profiles consists of
illustrative creative productions that provide a clear indication of
the tenor of the persons' thought.

Profiles In
Courageous
Dissent

Norman D. Livergood

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal
hostility against every form of tyranny over
the mind of man."

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

"You do not become a
'dissident' just because you
decide one day to take up this
most unusual career. You are
thown into it by your personal
sense of responsibility,
combined with a complex set of
external circumstances. You

Awareness of these brave
persons can encourage all of us
to emulate their intrepid
protestations against modern
oppression. In a time when
dissent is identified, by the Bush junta, as tantamount to sedition,
it's even more necessary to stand against despotism.

are cast out of the existing
structures and placed in a
position of conflict with them.
It begins as an attempt to do
your work well, and ends with
being branded an enemy of
society."

Václav Havel (b. 1936), former
Czech president and
playwright

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does
oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight
when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And
it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air however slight lest we become
unwitting victims of the darkness."

William O. Douglas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court

"What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers
are not warned from time to time that its people
preserve the spirit of resistance."

Thomas Jefferson