The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these a...re abandoned, of race, but of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a child is "free of neurotic symptoms" but values his freedom from fear so highly that he will never in his lifetime risk himse...lf for an idea or a principle, then this mental health does not serve human welfare. If he is "secure" but never aspires to anything but personal security, then this security cannot be valued in itself. If he is "well adjusted to the group" but secures his adjustment through uncritical acceptance of and compliance with the ideas of others, then this adjustment does not serve a democratic society. if he "adjusts well in school" but furnishes his mind with commonplace ideas and facts...then what civilization can value the "adjustment" of this child?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see self-sufficiency as the hallmark of maturity conveys a view of adult life that is at odds with the human condition, a view ...that cannot sustain the kinds of long-term commitments and involvements with other people that are necessary for raising and educating a child or for citizenship in a democratic society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put dow...n a revolutionary minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women, because of their colonial relationship to men, have to fight for their own independence. This fight for our own independenc...e will lead to the growth and development of the revolutionary movement in this country. Only the independent woman can be truly effective in the larger revolutionary struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, "Wait." Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I ...must stand with him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don't feel that it w...as violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily--obviously not completely--moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better, ...we've called the military error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions ...in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place ...where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »