The literal alternatives to [abortion] are suicide, motherhood, and, some would add, madness. Consequently, there is some confusio...n, discomfort, and cynicism greeting efforts to "find" or "emphasize" or "identify" alternatives to abortion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried... to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true found...ation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Cairo conference ... is about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health c...are. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible a...dults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human bein...gs for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democ...racy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic and ...food for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that th...e majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dost thou ask what I mean by emancipation?... 1. It is "to reject with indignation, the wile and guilty phantasy, that man can hol...d property in man." 2. To pay the laborer his hire, for he is worthy of it. 3. No longer to deny him the right of marriage, but to "let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband," as saith the apostle. 4. To let parents have their own children, for they are the gift of the Lord to them, and no one else has any right to them. 5. No longer to withhold the advantages of education and the privilege of reading the bible. 6. To put the slave under the protection of equitable laws. Now, why should not all this be done immediately? Which of these things is to be done next year, and which the year after? and so on. Our immediate emancipation means, doing justice and loving mercy to-day--and this is what we call upon every slaveholder to do. I have seen too much of slavery to be a gradualist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »