While male ducks evolve to gain physical and sexual control over females, female ducks evolve to assert, and reassert, their freedom of choice.
Living in truth meant taking small, personal acts of conscience that reasserted personal freedom and cracked the ubiquitous but fragile shell of authoritarianism.
Sure we don't always agree with the outcomes, the party politics, the machinations, but we do support the process, because it defines our country and reasserts our freedoms.
Ronald Reagan ushered in an era that reasserted the marketplace and freedom.
Reasserting the principle that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to falsify unchecked seems timely.
Talking to the Times in the summer of 2008, he noted that Ronald Reagan "ushered in an era that reasserted the marketplace and freedom".
The real power behind the new throne was an ambitious and visionary young colonel who dreamed of reasserting the dignity and freedom of the Arab nation, with Egypt at the heart of the renaissance.
"...Reagan ushered in an era that reasserted the marketplace and freedom.
"A skyscraper rises above its predecessors," he said, "reasserting the pre-eminence of freedom and beauty".
Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman of Union Temple, a Reform congregation in Brooklyn, said she would refer to the controversy over the Muslim center in summoning her congregants to reassert their commitment to tolerance and freedom of religion for all — "as Americans and as Jews".
