"Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy."
-Richard Stallman
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"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.“
-Richard Stallman
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"In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything."
-Richard Stallman
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"When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal."
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"With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom."
-Richard Stallman
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"If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase."
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"In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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