If you have ever watched an artist constructing with bits of cold stone a beautiful living picture you know that he works faithful...ly and carefully on the pattern from the wrong side and while he is working every inequality, every tint a little too dull is apparent to him as his picture grows, but he works on and on. And even when he finishes at last and looks down at the completed pattern he is not discouraged to see here a little crevice and there a little roughness, an open seam here, a tiny patch there where the bit of marble was too small. Now he pours his cement over it and smoothes [sic] it into every seam, and with faith puts his work to dry. Next day the pattern is turned and the perfect whole is given to view, needing only the polishing of a loving hand to make it ready to slip in place. So we should work faithfully on our pattern, cement it together with ourselves, and polish it with human kindness; and lo! the work slips into place seemingly a perfect whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We accept and welcome ... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration... of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense ...and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has... left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those w...ho are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... dissatisfied with city expenditures, the inequality of public school education, (sexualizing education), your remonstrant pays... her taxes compulsorily instead of cheerfully, feeling within her that element of patriotism which inspired her as well as your forefathers, in the utterance of that deep, full, and clear sentiment, "Taxation without representation is tyranny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »