"Apathy is the greatest danger to freedom." My friend doesn't know who first said it, but I'm more interested in what it means.
2007-11-24 09:20:56 · 2 answers · asked by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Freedom must be more or less continually fought for. If you take it for granted, you lose it. Much of the trouble we're having here in the US these days is because we had it so good for so long that we lost our political awareness. People don't educate themselves on political matters, and they don't vote.
Just after our revolution, there was another small rebellion in the hinterlands of western Massachusetts, called Shays' Rebellion. It was about farmers far away from the big cities, out on the frontier, feeling they shouldn't have to pay as much in taxes as people in the more populated part of the country did, because they didn't get as much in govt. services. (That's a gross simplification but basically what it was about). Of this rebellion, Thomas Jefferson said that the Tree of Liberty only survives if it is watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants! Great quote!
2007-11-24 09:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Apathy, is refusing to pay attention, or to ignore stuff, or therwise let things slide.
Freedom must be constantly tried for and anything that interferes with a freedom, should be challanged, Otherwise, freedom will slowly erode away.
2007-11-24 17:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by bob shark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋