If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smoo...th,--certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter- friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest fr...om them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a p...oor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, bu...t in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political veiwpoint--Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moder...ate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems ... that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigo...rous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortg...age and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, for instance, a man asserts the value of individual liberty over the merely political commonweal, his neighbor still tolerates... him,... sometimes even sustains him, but never the State. Its officer, as a living man, may have human virtues and a thought in his brain, but as the tool of an institution, a jailor or constable it may be, he is not a whit superior to his prison key or his staff. Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread in his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the quarrel Will bear no color for the thing he is,... Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »