An inquiry about the attitude towards the release of so-called political prisoners. I should be very sorry to see the United State...s holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell f...or those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept... truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the British people know it? No. It is our task, Ella, yours and mine, to tell them. Because the great men are too great to be bothered. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. That is what is important for our time. You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The baggage occupied the middle or widest part of the canoe. We also paddled by turns in the bows, now sitting with our legs exten...ded, now sitting upon our legs, and now rising upon our knees; but I found none of these positions endurable, and was reminded of the complaints of the old Jesuit missionaries of the torture they endured from long confinement in constrained positions in canoes, in their long voyages from Quebec to the Huron country; but afterwards I sat on the cross-bars, or stood up, and experienced no inconvenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... as women become free, economic, social factors, so becomes possible the full social combination of individuals in collective i...ndustry. With such freedom, such independence, such wider union, becomes possible also a union between man and woman such as the world has long dreamed of in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't think I'd come out alive; in fact, I was seeing death. But I was prepared to die as long as I died for the truth, and I k...new that people would know that this was the case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »