We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine rig...ht of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... "a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge [Senator Stephen] Do...uglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles--right and wrong--throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;... The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as pa...rents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,... I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freest... country on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »