By the "mud-sill" theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible.... According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be--all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; an...d at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman... is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying ...some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.... Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind. But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip, When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »