...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially s...ex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should read history--look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, yo...u know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be ta...ken away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigo...rous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostra...cism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »