Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are ...sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution--these ca...n lift at a colossal humbug--push it a little--weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. That ain't easy. There are ...so few truth-speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of "Western civilization" has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that it releases the Spirit and that it is a joyous thing. We live in a part of the world, for example, that equates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility with naive idealism, that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are alr...eady taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,... And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle fo...r influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »