Here is some good news: The march of liberty has so far proven to be
generally unstoppable. Over the span of human history there have been
periods during which hardly any sign of respect for human liberty had
been in evidence. In other eras the globe has seen advances toward human
liberty by leaps and bounds. That is to say, in some periods clear
evidence can be pointed to showing that some men and women – such as
kings, queens, czars, Pharaohs, Caesars, dictators, tyrants, politburos,
political bodies of all types and uncivil majorities – have began to
recede in their efforts to suppress other men and women, to treat them
as their tools, instruments, subjects, and such. In other periods the
opposite trend has been in evidence.
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