It seems to me that the binary opposition that is so much embedded in Western thought and language makes it nearly impossible to project a complex response.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

To some people independent thought is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone will insist that they do not support male violence against women, that they believe it to be morally and ethically wrong. However, if you then explain that we cannot end male violence against women by challenging patriarchy, and that means no longer accepting the notion that men should have more rights and privileges than women because of biological difference or that men should have the power to rule over women, that is when the agreement stops. There is a gap between the values they claim to hold and their willingness to do the work of connecting thought and action, theory and practice to realize these values and thus create a more just society.

People tend to say "I like independent thinkers but they must think what i want them to think independently