QUOTES
Animal
Rights
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That
is the way of a whole human being."
Citizenship
"Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common
country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling."
Civil
Rights
"The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end
of one, or even one hundred defeats."
Community
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one
uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Friendship
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
Globalization
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to
tremble for the safety of my country....corporations have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until
all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel
at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even
in the midst of war.
Human
Rights
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong
impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Kindness
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always
plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
Labor
If any man
tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you
he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
All
that harms labor is treason to America.
"Labor
is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior
of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
The
strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting
working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Literacy
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting
it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a
people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education
appears to be an objective of vital importance."
Living
a Life of Compassion
With malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
That
we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
No
More War
There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy.
There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Patriotism
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man
live so that his place will be proud of him.
Peace
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish
the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves and with all nations."
