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| On Dream Life |
1. ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROGRESS AND STRUGGLE
"In the event that there is no battle, there is no advancement.
The individuals who claim to support opportunity,
but then devalue unsettling, are men
who need crops without furrowing up the ground.
They need downpour without thunder and lightning.
They need the sea without the horrendous thunder
of its numerous waters. This battle might be an ethical one;
or it might be a physical one; or it might be both good and
physical; however it must be a battle. Power yields nothing
without an interest. It never did and it never will."
2. ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF SORROW
"A grin or a tear has not nationality;
happiness and distress talk alike to all countries,
and they, over all the perplexity of tongues,
announce the fraternity of man."
3. ON THE VALUE OF EDUCATION
"Some know the estimation of instruction by having it.
I know its incentive by not having it."
4. ON THE DENIAL OF JUSTICE
"The American individuals have this to realize:
that where equity is denied, where destitution
is upheld, where obliviousness wins, and where
any one class is made to feel that society is a
sorted out scheme to mistreat, loot, and debase
them, neither individual nor property is protected."
5. ON MEASURING INJUSTICE
"Discover exactly what any individuals will
unobtrusively submit to and you have the
accurate proportion of the foul play and wrong
which will be forced on them."
6. ON EMPOWERING YOUTH
"It is simpler to assemble solid youngsters than to fix broken men."
7. ON MORAL GROWTH
"A fight lost or won is effectively depicted, comprehended,
and acknowledged, however the ethical development of
an extraordinary country requires reflection,
just as perception, to welcome it."
8. ON THE SECURITY OF A NATION
"The life of a country is secure just while the
country is straightforward, honest, and high-minded."
9. ON THE NEED FOR POWER
"It isn't light that we need, yet fire;
it isn't the delicate shower, however thunder.
We need the tempest, the hurricane, and the tremor."
10. ON FREE SPEECH
"To smother free discourse is a twofold off-base.
It damages the privileges of the listener just as
those of the speaker."
11. ON REBELLION
"The thing more regrettable than resistance
is what causes insubordination."
12. ON THE CONSEQUENCE OF SLAVERY
"No man can put a chain about the lower leg of
his individual man without finally finding the
opposite end attached about his very own neck."
13. ON RIGHT VERSUS WRONG
"I would join with anyone to do right and with no one to foul up."
14. ON WORKING FOR WHAT YOU GET
"Individuals probably won't get all they work for in
this world, however they should absolutely work for all they get."
15. ON THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE
"Learning makes a man unfit to be a slave."
16. ON THE NECESSITY OF IRONY
"At such a critical time, singing incongruity,
not persuading contention, is required."
17. ON REMAINING TRUE TO ONESELF
"I like to be consistent with myself, even at the danger
of bringing about the scorn of others, as opposed to be
false, and to cause my own detestation."
18. ON THE IMPENETRABILITY OF ONE'S SOUL
"The spirit that is inside me no man can corrupt."
19. ON THE COLOR OF ONE'S CHARACTER
"A man's character dependably takes its tint, pretty much,
from the structure and shade of things about him."
20. ON USING THE PAST TO MAKE A BETTER FUTURE
"We have to do with the past just as we can make it
valuable to the present and what's to come."
On Dream Life
Without Stragal
No Success
