The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. |
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world |
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. |
The most violent element in society is ignorance. |
The most violent element in society is ignorance. |
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another. |
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. |
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. |
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime |
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being |
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." |
To disbelieve in the gods is at the same time to affirm life, purpose and beauty. |
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. |
When we can't dream any longer we die. |
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution |