Who can measure the advantages that would result if the magnificent abilities of these women could be devoted to the needs of gove...rnment, society and home, instead of being consumed in the struggle to obtain their birthright of individual freedom? Until this be gained we can never know, we can not even prophesy the capacity and power of women for the uplifting of humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is difficult to generalize why so many Latino/as moved toward conservative ... views.... for many, I believe it is basically a ...matter of desiring material acquisitions. It is difficult to maintain a collective ideology in a society where possessions and power-status equal self-worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, dis...playing itself from within.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the ...human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- l...ike ease and power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This was Pharaoh, direct descendent of our deity Amon, god of the sun, who rules the heavens as Pharaoh rules the earth. Again, he... brought treasure, gold, and precious jewels taken from our enemies. For to Pharaoh riches were power and power was to be desired. And also again he brought many captives. For is it not by slaves that one becomes even richer and then has even more power?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capita...l. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.--How is this?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the [Utah] Territory is virtually under the theocratic government of the Mormon Church. The union of church and state is compl...ete. The result is the usual one, the usurpation or absorption of all temporal authority and power by the church. Polygamy and every other evil sanctioned by the church is safe. To destroy the temporal power of the Mormon Church is the end in view.... Mormonism as a sectarian idea is nothing, but as a system of government it is our duty to deal with it as an enemy to our institutions, and its supporters and leaders as criminals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »