i was making an offline search tool for Project Gutenberg's library last night, and saw this speech in the search data. I downloaded it, and read it, and was amazed by its boldness. This one speech was significant in moving America toward revolution. https://atyh.net/gmlogmd.html

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Silence 1 year ago
If any of these guys were teleported to today’s USA would they not flee immediately to start over?
Just remembered that I picked up Václav Havel's 'The Power of the Powerless' after seeing you mention it in a note you posted a while back. It was an amazing and powerful read, especially for someone like me who has grown up and currently lives in a largely socialistic pattern of society. So is this speech. Thank you for sharing them! 🫂 It was this note:
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Well to be honest, I think you’re right. It is a losing battle. Which is why we change the battle. Vaclav Havel’s essay “ the Power of the Powerless” discusses this whole concept. Fight the system directly, you’ll lose, remove the system from your own life, in cooperation with others, and eventually the system collapses. He wrote it in the Soviet Union. Turns out, he was right. Fitting that he became President of the Czech Republic later.
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He was such a great communicator and writer. I found some of his plays and other books. What an interesting guy.
Always knew the line "Give me liberty or give me death" but had never read the whole speech. Wow! It's a banger from beginning to end.. and that white is at the end.
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i was making an offline search tool for Project Gutenberg's library last night, and saw this speech in the search data. I downloaded it, and read it, and was amazed by its boldness. This one speech was significant in moving America toward revolution. https://atyh.net/gmlogmd.html
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