James Otis Jr. warned that nothing destroys liberty “more than a prevailing opinion that it is better to tamely submit than nobly assert and vindicate our privileges.”
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We have to resist overreaching government power at its very first approach. If we don't, it will grow and grow and grow.
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Walt Whitman and James Otis, Jr. were right. We need less "unquestioning obedience," and more refusal to comply.
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It was a revolution in thought - a radical change in thinking.
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The doctrine of “passive obedience and non-resistance” - was one the founders and old revolutionaries vehemently rejected as destructive to liberty. Yet, here we are today...is it based on fear, or maybe just old habits?
The post What’s the Deal with all the Obedience? first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Until at least the 1960s or so, the "progressive school" of history suggested that we totally ignore the views and works of old revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and James Otis.
As Samuel Adams and James Otis warned, supporting the idea of a “living breathing” constitution has destroyed our foundation