Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.... Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... throughout the ages down to modern times, conditions of imprisonment, what with overcrowding, idleness, and all their attendan...t evils, have been such that not only the person but also to a deplorable extent the personality has been "confined or restrained." The problem of the betterment of our physical prison conditions goes hand in hand ... with the problem of re-creating and releasing personality "deep-dungeoned in self," of giving scope to the forces that tend upward, of counteracting and rendering harmless the already dominant tendencies toward evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents...; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not on...ly of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents can only give [children] good advice or put them on their right paths, but the final forming of a person lies in their own... hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the el...ection and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,... And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past,... your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand,... as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »