Howard Dean: Change requires effort

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http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2010/02/dean_change_requires_effort

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Former presidential candidate Howard Dean visited campus Tuesday to drum up Democratic support in New Mexico.

Students gathered in the SUB Theater to hear Dean speak about national issues including health care and political participation.

“Being in a democracy requires obligations, not just freedoms,” Dean said. “I don’t like talking about freedom, because people always want to talk about their rights and they never want to talk about their responsibilities. Freedom isn’t free. What freedom demands of us is working at it. Democracy is a human invention, and like every other human invention, if you don’t nurture it, it dies.”

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Social change begins from the bottom up, Dean said, and everyone should participate.
“We do have the power. The question is whether we are willing to use it or not. In order to use it depends on our willingness to stick to it,” he said. “We can do it — state by state and community by community.”

[WhiteTara]

1. go Howard!!!

insert Dean Scream here!

[Demeter]

2. A Kick for Howard Dean!

The Doctor is IN!

[carla]

3. Dr. Dean is right.

Freedom requires an acceptance of responsibility. Without such, a person is not actually free, one is merely libertine. Effort comes from an acceptance of it's necessity, but that effort equals the protection of freedom through the acceptance of responsibility. Grandma was right; it's more important to be responsible, than it is to yearn after "freedom".